Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight"

Bram Stoker, Writer

"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number, really"

Brandon Lee, Actor

"A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade"

Barnabe Barnes, Poet

"A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's"

Stan Sakai, Cartoonist

"We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired"

Joseph Jefferson, Artist

"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally, and they're now all gone"

Martin Denny, Musician

"I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode"

John Andre, Celebrity

"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive"

Irving Ravetch, Screenwriter

"I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh"

Emile Durkheim, Sociologist

"I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body"

Roy Horn, Entertainer

"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come"

Mika Waltari, Author

"Death, only, renders hope futile"

Edgar Rice Burroghs, Writer

"Alas, time stays, we go"

Henry Austin Dobson, Poet

"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you"

Georg Hermes, Theologian

"Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die"

Thomas Campion, Composer

"We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain"

Roberto Bolano, Novelist

"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year"

Marcia Wallace, Actress

"We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together"

John Pearson, Theologian

"It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York; it was the last time I saw her"

Dennis Kozlowski, Criminal

"A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you"

Sylvia Browne, Celebrity

"Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me"

Louis MacNeice, Poet

"Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew roses"

Robert Williams Buchanan, Poet

"They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here"

Henry Vaughan, Poet

"I'm dying always"

Jessye Norman, Musician

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Stephen Levine, Writer

"I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me"

Zachary Taylor, President

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die"

Franco Nero, Actor

"Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week"

Basil C. Hume

"She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal"

Thomas Nelson Page, Writer

"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go"

Henry Austin Dobson, Poet

"It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible"

Lucien Bouchard, Lawyer

"Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition"

John Pearson, Theologian

"Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any"

Michael Tolkin, Screenwriter

"I came face to face with death at thirteen years old"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade"

James Shirley, Dramatist

"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet"

Joshua Nkomo, Politician

"We will all someday experience death and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth"

Kim Elizabeth, Writer

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