blue oyster cult don't fear the reaper meaning
(Don't Fear) The Reaper The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age.[3] Lyrics such as "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity" have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, rather than suicide. He used Romeo and Juliet as motifs to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife.[citation needed] He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics; this rate was 100,000 off the mark.[4]
Matthew 7:7–8 The common English expression "Seek and Ye Shall Find" is derived from this verse.
By the Pricking of My Thumbs The title of the book comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when the second witch says:
One Ring One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.