I
look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing
to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give
it back, I have no right to complain.
-- Joyce Cary
1888-1957,
British Author
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the
immoral man: the former, a subject that does not
work; the latter, an object that no longer even
makes itself available to be worked on by
others.
-- Michel De
Certeau
French Writer
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb
and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say,
death values a prince no more than a clown;
all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at
all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes
a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather
or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well
as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor
queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without
chewing, and crams down all things into his
ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has,
he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after
men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's
milk.
-- Miguel De
Cervantes
1547-1616,
Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
'Tis
the maddest trick a man can ever play in his
whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his
body without any more ado, and without so much
as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts;
to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle,
and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
-- Miguel De
Cervantes
1547-1616,
Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
