„Come let us mock at the greatThat had such burdens on the mindAnd toiled so hard and lateTo leave some monument behind,Nor thought of the levelling wind.“

— W.B. Yeats
„Come let us mock at the goodThat fancied goodness might be gay,And sick of solitudeMight proclaim a holiday:Wind shrieked— and where are they?“
— W.B. Yeats
„I had thought, seeing how bitter is that windThat shakes the shutter, to have brought to mindAll those that manhood tried, or childhood lovedOr boyish intellect approved,With some appropriate commentary on each;Until imagination broughtA fitter welcome; but a thoughtOf that late death took all my heart for speech.“
— W.B. Yeats
„Leaves, some the wind scatters on the ground—So is the race of man.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.“
— Rick Riordan
„No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle