He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary fo… - Stephen Crane

"XX

A learned man came to me once.
He said, "I know the way, - come."
And I was overjoyed at this.
Together we hastened,
Soon, too soon, were we
Where my eyes were useless,
And I knew not the ways of me feet.
I clung to the hand of my friend;
But at last he cried, "I am lost.

Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed.

A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."