584 Quotes About Mortality

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

Because to exist meant making copies and copies of your own DNA with less and less accuracy with time, to lose the spring in your skin, to inhale a poisonous gas that both allowed your next breath and exploded you from the inside at an insidiously slow pace. To exist was to give way to entropy. To live, in no uncertain terms, was to die.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.

A Death blow is a Life blow to SomeWho till they died, did not alive become —Who had they lived, had died but whenThey died, Vitality begun.