Fyodor Dostoevsky. Idiot (№ 204889)

...if death so terrible and so strong the laws of nature, how to overcome them? How to overcome them when you do not beat them now, even the one that won and nature in their lives, which she obeyed. Nature dreaming when you look at this picture in the form of some enormous, implacable and dumb beast, or, rather, much rather, though strange, is in the form of some huge machine of the latest devices that senselessly seized, crushed and swallowed up in itself, dull and insensitive, a great and priceless being - such a being, which alone was worth the whole of nature and all her laws, the whole earth, which was created to be the only one only appearance of this creature! Picture this as if it expressed this notion of a dark, insolent and arrogant-the eternal force, where everyone is subject to, and is conveyed to you involuntarily.