I'm Supposed to Die Tonight
Song lyrics, The Massacre (2005)
Source: The Funny Thing Is...
“Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”
El ir derecho acorta las distancias, y también la vida.
Voces (1943)
“Barren are the years behind me. This is the first day of my span, here is the threshold of my life.”
Steriles transmisimus annos:
haec aevi mihi prima dies, hic limina vitae.
ii, line 12
Silvae, Book IV
“Friends front in front of me
Fuckin' wannabes
In your ear
But they don't know Eamon”
"Get off My Dick!"
Lyrics, I Don't Want You Back (2004)
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, pages 465-466 -->
Context: Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled, and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy-laden year … give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven.
Discourse on 5/7/2001 in Sanathana Sarathi (August 2001) p. 226
“Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”
Book i. Song 2. Compare: "Who then to frail mortality shall trust/ But limns on water, or but writes in dust", Francis Bacon, The World.
Britannia's Pastorals (1613)
“Music has no limits of a life-span.”
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
“The world's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.”
The World (1629)
