Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Sometimes ascribed to Virginia Woolf, but it appeared as early as 1854 in Anna Jameson's A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, where it is ascribed to William Wordsworth.
Misattributed
Attributed by Anna Jameson in her A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (1854).
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856), p. 207
What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?
P. 276.
Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
“I myself can think of a dozen ways to annihilate all living persons within one hour.”
Fritz Zwicky, cited in " Idea Man http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beamline/31/1/31-1-maurer.pdf", by Stephen M. Maurer; published in Beam Line (Winter 2001, Vol. 31, No. 1)
“Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.”
Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.
