Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I had always wanted to write a song called The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there"

Mac Davis, Musician

"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?"

David Brin, Author

"I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"She died praying that she might die"

Mary Chesnut, Author

"Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!"

Thomas a Kempis, Writer

"I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does"

Harry Anderson, Actor

"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament"

Paul de Man, Critic

"I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death"

John Harvey Kellogg, Businessman

"There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life"

Alan Alda, Actor

"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I will ge glad to have done with this life forever"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"I believe in the immortality of all creatures"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow"

Aphra Behn, Dramatist

"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?"

David Brin, Author

"The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?"

Bennett Cerf, Journalist

"I'm not afraid to die"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death"

Daniel Boone, Explorer

"The journey is over. Love to all"

Carolyn Heilbrun, Writer

"I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death"

Jean Harris, Criminal

"How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?"

Donald Justice, Poet

"We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted, although we're still in the process of finding those we lost"

Kathleen Blanco, Politician

"I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"Everything has an end"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

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