584 Quotes About Mortality

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

The endless ocean was his sole companion , and on some deeply sentimental level, it seemed sufficient. Almost apt. He aligned himself with Thoreau and Tolstoy, he felt like their peers. The kinship with nature devoted humans to a mythical state, a heightened persona beyond the reach of mere mortals. At least that was what he told himself on the lonely nights when insomnia played on his fears and the howling wind pierced through his soul.

The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Time is a long sunrise where we wait for our haloes.