Unknown. The Cruel Mother

Famous quotes containing the words unknown, cruel and/or mother:

    They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical
    persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural
    and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors,
    ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should
    submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt ... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
    Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LautrĂ©amont (1846–1870)

    May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)