Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

-Aeschylus
Prometheus Vinctus, l.750^1.

But it's a long, long while From May to December; And the days grow short When you reach September.

-Anderson, Maxwell
  'September Song' (music by Kurt  Weill).

It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

-Andrewes, Lancelot
  Of the Nativity, sermon15.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure. Let night come, ring out the hour, The days go by, I remain.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les  Alcools,'Le Pont Mirabeau'.

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 29:20.

   And Jacobsaid unto Pharaoh,The days oftheyears of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: fewand evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 47:9.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 33:25.

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Chronicles 29:28.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 7:6.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:12.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:15^16.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 3:13^18.

I saw in the night visions and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Daniel 7:13.

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Ephesians 5:16.

God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews1:1^3.

Lord, let me know mine end, and thenumberof mydays: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 39:5.

The year's at the spring, And days at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heavenö All's right with the world.

-Browning, Robert
Pippa Passes, pt.1.

That will not bring back the things we love: the high, clear days and the blue icecaps on the mountains; the lines of white poplars fluttering in the wind, and the long white prayer flags† Nor shall we get back the smell of the beanfields; the sweet, resinous smell of deodar wood burning, or the whiff of a snow leopard at14,000 feet. Never. Never. Never.

-Chatwin, Bruce
  Introduction to Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana.

And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angryand poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'Song of Defeat'.

We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days†[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Sketches by Boz,'Criminal Courts'.