„Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.“
— Homér
„Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.“
— Stephen Fry
„I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.“
— William Shakespeare
„When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.“
— Maya Angelou
„Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?“
— W.B. Yeats