Robert Mayer (1814–1878) German physicist
in Die organische Bewegung in ihrem Zusammenhange mit dem Stoffwechsel, [Julius Robert von Mayer, Die Mechanik der Wärme in gesammelten Schriften, Cotta, 1867, 53-54]
Robert Mayer (1814–1878) German physicist
in Die organische Bewegung in ihrem Zusammenhange mit dem Stoffwechsel, [Julius Robert von Mayer, Die Mechanik der Wärme in gesammelten Schriften, Cotta, 1867, 53-54]
“Nichts gibt so sehr das Gefühl der Unendlichkeit als wie die Dummheit.”
Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938) Austro-Hungarian writer
“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”
Why the lucky stiff American computer programmer
Collected PDFs (2013)
“They that die by famine die by inches.”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Psalm 59.
Commentaries
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
the Mother said,
"My children die for lack of Bread."
The Grey Monk, stanza 1
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition
“So might we die, not envying them that live;
So would we die, not unrevenged all.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Noi morirem, né invidia avremo ai vivi:
Noi morirem, ma non morremo inulti.
Canto II, stanza 86 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“"I die, I die!" the Mother said,
"My children die for lack of Bread."”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Grey Monk, stanza 1
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition