““I am a beggar.”
“You are a travesty,” said Titus, “and when you die the earth will breathe again.””
Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 16 (p. 829)
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”
Source: Julius Caesar
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Heaven blazing into the head:
Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Last Poems (1936-1939)
Context: Heaven blazing into the head:
Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.
Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,
And all the drop-scenes drop at once
Upon a hundred thousand stages,
It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
Lapis Lazuli, st. 2
Samuel of Nehardea (165–257) Babylonian rabbi
Talmud, Berachot 58b
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Variant: When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
Source: Atlas Shrugged
