Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"In the end, we discover the only condition for living is to die"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Should I, perchance, still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling, giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... In any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it"

Elias Canetti, Author

"What, if as said, man is a bubble?"

Marcus Terentius Varro, Author

"Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life"

Marcus Terentius Varro, Author

"I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die"

Carlos Castaneda, Writer

"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all"

William Goldman, Novelist

"And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing"

Bret Harte, Author

"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"They that die by famine, die by inches"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"I ought not to speak about the dead, because the dead are all over the place"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"I hope to die in the saddle seat"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too"

Jim Valvano, Coach

"I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background"

Jim Valvano, Coach

"I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"Everything that gets born dies"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked"

Dennis Nilsen, Criminal

"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death"

Alexander Chase, Author

"Life is an incurable disease"

Abraham Cowley, Poet

"As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

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