Famous quotes containing the word cruel:
“Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath,
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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)
“And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?”
—Jean Racine (16391699)
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