Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

William Butler Yeats

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human, at least, if not divine"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it, the better"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

Robert A. Heinlein

"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Death is only a larger kind of going abroad"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor, and the towers of kings"

Horace, Poet

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"Under each formula lies a corpse"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"To have died once is enough"

Virgil, Writer

"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"In every parting, there is an image of death"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"In the attempt to defeat death, man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"Life and death have been lacking in my life"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart, like a muffled drum, is beating funeral marches"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"In every death, a busy world comes to an end"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"He who is hated by all, can not expect to live long"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"He who does not fear death cares naught for threats"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Each instant of life is a step toward death"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide or murder"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

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