Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

“I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me—and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 2:18-19.

“... passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)