Sudden Death Time

Famous quotes containing the words sudden, death and/or time:

“Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“There is something antique, even, in his style of treating his subject, reminding us that Heroes and Demi-gods, Fates and Furies, still exist; the common man is nothing to him, but after death the hero is apotheosized and has a place in heaven, as in the religion of the Greeks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)