“"And our little life is rounded with sleep."

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? I have no wish to have been alive a hundred years ago, or in the reign of Queen Anne: why should I regret and lay it so much to heart that I shall not be alive a hundred years hence, in the reign of I cannot tell whom? “
-William Hazlitt, "On The Fear of Death" (From Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners)

“”Of course, polytheism has its advantages,” Karl pointed out. “If you fall suddenly in love with an unsuitable person, you may say, I am struck by Cupids arrow and helpless to resist! Or if something awful happens, you needn’t ask, What have I done to deserve this misfortune? Or, How could a just God permit such a thing? You merely say, Alas! Poor me! The gods are playing in the sky, and I have stumbled into their path.””
- Mary Dora Russell, Dreamers of the Day

Brit Insurance Design awards 2009: The winners:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/19/design-awards-british-winner?picture=344797207