"are not my days few ? cease then, and let me alone, that i may take comfort a little, before i go whence i shall not return" [Job 10:20-21] "we grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noonday as in the night ; we are in desolate places as dead men" [Isaiah 59:10] "i should have been as though i had not been ; i should have been carried from the womb to the grave"