Famous quotes containing the word cruel:
“Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“O Paddy dear, an did ye hear the news thats goin round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patricks Day well keep, his colour cant be seen,
For theres a cruel law agin the wearin o the Green!”
—Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 3740)
“Lifethat is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Lifethat is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weakand not only about us. Lifethat is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?And yet old Moses said: Thou shalt not kill.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)