Dighanikaya 23.420_2

23.420_2

‘‘Nābhinandāmi maraṇaṃ, nābhinandāmi jīvitaṃ;
Kālañca paṭikaṅkhāmi, nibbisaṃ bhatako yathāti. (theragā. 1001)

“I do not delight in death, I do not delight in life; / And I await my time, as a hired laborer his wages.”