Famous quotes containing the words prowling, death and/or records:
“In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“When Death to either shall come—
I pray it be first to me.”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
“Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records what’s gone.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)