584 Quotes About Mortality
- Author Marcus Aurelius
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All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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- Author William Knox
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Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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What, indeed, if you look from a mountain-top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
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- Author Julie Kagawa
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I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.
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- Author Darren Shan
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Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.
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- Author Milan Kundera
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He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.
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- Author Adelaide Crapsey
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Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News of thy great burial; When the pomp is passed away, 'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.
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- Author Bill Madden
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You’ll never truly know how strong your spiritual practice is until you’re faced with your own mortality. Until you’re faced with an incurable disease, and you realize that the greater battle is not one of body, but the one in your mind.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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To give something or someone your attention is to give it or them a portion of your life.
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