Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"I have been able to follow my death step by step, and now my life goes gently to its end"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"I have had lots of friends who've been affected by AIDS and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of AIDS and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care"

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson

"In the long run, we are all dead"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"Death is no different whined at than withstood"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"As the fly bangs against the window, attempting freedom, while the door stands open, so we bang against death, ignoring heaven"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Death is the final wake-up call"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Death is feared as birth is forgotten"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"To awake from death is to die in peace"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being"

Tom Robbins, Author

Tom Robbins

"Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

Arthur Ashe

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart"

Tecumseh, Leader

"Death is the most blessed dream"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"In sleep we lie all naked and alone, in sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home"

Tecumseh, Leader

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

Miguel de Unamuno

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

Paul Gauguin

"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Have an earnestness for death, and you will have life"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians"

Alexander the Great, Leader

Alexander the Great

"The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century"

Al Gore, Vice President

Al Gore

"All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"How quickly passes away the glory of this world!"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death"

Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier

"When you're dead, you're dead. That's it"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"I cleaned up my act, because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket"

Lou Reed, Musician

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to"

Graham Greene, Playwright

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