Leonid Shebarshin. KGB jokes ...: aphorisms from the chief of the Soviet intelligence service and his son (№ 331542)

Instability, the fragility, the ephemeral nature of all earthly things, a small part of which was the fate of the serviceman of the person, was perceived by Man as something indisputable, axiomatic, the only constant in our world. Life is a waiting for the blow from the corner, he would say, remembering all those lines of Alexey Tolstoy:
"All the ashes, a Ghost, ashes and smoke.
All will disappear like a whirlwind dusty..."
The poet was thinking about the fate of the human in General, about the inevitable end awaiting all living. General more took the idea of the vicissitudes that await the human on the path to the inevitable finale. Speculative fatalism is one thing. Another thing, when fate brings an unexpected blow on your own, not abstract, but very real head, and you, floating in some kind of the usual course, suddenly begins to cast the vortex on the reefs and shoals. After such tests, people just need to understand what happened to him, what hostile, friendly or natural forces turned his existence.