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Quotes About Mortality

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.
~ Charles Bukowski
Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
~ John Milton
It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
~ George Eliot
Death is the saddest part of life.
~ deAnna Lea
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
~ David Hume
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
~ Eugene Ionesco
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
~ Christiaan Barnard
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.
~ Sigmund Freud
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
~ Robert Bloch
Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
~ Xenophanes
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
~ Harvey Cushing
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
~ Elizur Wright
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
~ William Shakespeare
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
~ Ambrose Bierce
You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.
~ Drew Magary, The Postmortal
We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.
~ Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.
~ Frederick Lenz
A human lifeIs the time that happenswhileThe Earth takes a breakFor you to livebetweenInhaling and exhaling your soulfrom the un-endless spaceNamed infinity
~ Haidji, SG - Suicide Game
Life without death simply isn't life, but death
~ Juliet Daniel
BewareAt war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease
~ Octavia E. Butler
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
~ William L.K., The Voice