584 Quotes About Mortality
- Author Kaleb Kilton
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It's the darkness of life. The light is here one day and gone the next. Only the fortunate get to take the light for granted. Only the sun is here today and tomorrow. Life and everything else is perishable. Sadness is nothing but a realizationof that impermanence. The expression of our fragility and mortality.-- Here Tomorrow
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- Author Barbara Wersba
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Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter
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- Author Gene Wolfe
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Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.
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- Author Martin Hägglund
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To keep faith in mortal life, then, is to remain vulnerable to a pain that no strength can finally master. Mortality is not only intrinsic to what makes life meaningful, but also makes life susceptible to lose meaning and become unbearable. The point is not to overcome this vulnerability but to recognize that it is an essential part of why our lifes matter and why we care. (49)
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- Author RyLee Harrison
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We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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Even they have died who said death is an illusion.
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- Author Clarence E. Flynn
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DEATHWhy do you fear me?I am your friend.I but guide trav'lersRounding the bend ---Lead them to freedomFrom time and age,Help them start writing a new page...Seek for me never,Keep your course true ---When I am neededI'll come to you,Then I will show youRoads without end ---Why do you fear me?I am your friend.
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- Author Daniel Linn Lewis
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Our eyes is the subconscious of knowledge, and our intelligence is the doorway of seeing through our eyesight and perceive a glimpse of our own brilliant brainpower. That's the power of a visionary mindset with intellectual-made eyes.
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