I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. Audre Lorde
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Voltaire
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop
