Famous quotes containing the words death, tale and/or fragments:
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date,
But when in thee times furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“In the tale properwhere there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incidentmere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we havevery largely if not entirelylost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)