“The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.” YearsCountryNightDiesKnownHeardEffectsYears AgoIllPacksDoomedHuntsOne NightWalesCelticHounds Author:Robertson Davies
“Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.” CharacterDreamDiesConscienceUltimateBoundsFrustratedRefugeDoomedSeekersPersonal Character Book:The Art of Life Source: The Art of Life
“The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die” WorldPersonsSelfDiesFoundCreaturesContraryDependentDoomedImmediacy Author:Roberto Unger