
„They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.“
— Georg Büchner German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813 - 1837
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835), Act I.
— Georg Büchner German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813 - 1837
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835), Act I.
— John Skelton English poet 1460 - 1529
Poems against Sir Christopher Garnesche, probably published c. 1523, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest", John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) part ii. chap. v.
— John Fletcher English Jacobean playwright 1579 - 1625
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 2.
— Richard Francis Burton British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet,… 1821 - 1890
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), Note I : Hâjî Abdû, The Man, Context: The Hâjî regrets the excessive importance attached to a possible future state: he looks upon this as a psychical stimulant, a day dream, whose revulsion and reaction disorder waking life. The condition may appear humble and prosaic to those exalted by the fumes of Fancy, by a spiritual dram-drinking which, like the physical, is the pursuit of an ideal happiness. But he is too wise to affirm or to deny the existence of another world. For life beyond the grave there is no consensus of mankind… Even the instinctive sense of our kind is here dumb. We may believe what we are taught: we can know nothing. He would, therefore, cultivate that receptive mood which, marching under the shadow of mighty events, leads to the highest of goals, — the development of Humanity. With him suspension of judgment is a system.
— Amit Ray Indian author 1960
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird (2014) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KkYtBgAAQBAJ,
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
On Certainty (1969)
— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1471/, st. 2
— Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet
— Václav Havel playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic 1936 - 2011
Letter to Husák
— Victor Hugo, libro The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
— John Gray 1948
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002), The Unsaved: Atheism, the Last Consequence of Christianity (p.126)
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”, “Nests,” p. 55
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
The Rebel (1951), Part 4: Rebellion and Art
— Ellen Goodman American journalist and writer 1941
Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/, Op-Ed, February 9, 2007
— Florence Nightingale English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing 1820 - 1910
Cassandra (1860)
— Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968
Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42 (p. 881)