“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
Source: As You Like It
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
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from the shackles of language and measurable time”
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“Yet, with this ruined Old World for a nest,
Worm-eaten through and through”
A Word With a Skylark, lines 5-6.
Source: Interpreter of Maladies
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 81
The Appointment (1997)
“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
In re Hallett's Estate (1880) 13 Ch.D. 696, 710.
If Only We Have Love (1957)
Context: If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns.
If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again;
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars!
As closing scene in the 1968 musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975 film version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSXpC8fbNA
Translations and adaptations, If We Only Have Love (1968)
Context: If we only have love
We will never bow down
We'll be tall as the pines
Neither heroes nor clowns.
If we only have love
Then we'll only be men
And we'll drink from the Grail
To be born once again
Then with nothing at all
But the little we are
We'll have conquered all time
All space, the sun, and the stars.
“Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!”