“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”

Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà
Pleurant sans cesse,
Dis, qu'as-tu fait, toi que voilà
De ta jeunesse?
"Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit", line 13, from Sagesse (1880); Sorrell p. 111

[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 49]

The Epilogue : Which is the proper ending of all comedies; and heralds, it may be, an afterpiece.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are...

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You, written by Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, and Michael Kamen
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Why Me
Song lyrics, Jesus Was a Capricorn (1972)

Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 10, section 2 (p. 948)