“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
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“No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.”
The Second Part, Chapter 21, p. 112
Leviathan (1651)
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
Source: Being and Nothingness (1943), p. 237, 1998 edition
“Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.”
Variant: Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!
Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 93
Context: The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. From the last ills no being can save another; therein each man must be his own saviour. For the rest, whatever befall us, let us never train our murderous guns inboard; let us not mutiny with bloody pikes in our hands. Our Lord High Admiral will yet interpose; and though long ages should elapse, and leave our wrongs unredressed, yet, shipmates and world-mates! let us never forget, that, Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that's homeward-bound!
“The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802)
The last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
Context: My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
Source: Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies
