Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens.
We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.[Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]
Death isn’t really so important as we make out.
