“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box”
Italian Proverb
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life”
William Shakespeare
“Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.”
Tom Stoppard
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
Albert Einstein
“Within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court.”
“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.”
David Bowie
“No human thing is of serious importance”
Plato
