Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"The descent to Hades is the same from every place"

Anaxagoras, Philosopher

Anaxagoras

"We die only once, and for such a long time"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

Heinrich Heine

"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself"

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"To die will be an awfully big adventure"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"For 'tis not in mere death that men die most"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

Bill Hicks

"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life"

George Clooney, Actor

George Clooney

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

Elie Wiesel

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

Ivan Turgenev

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves, at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I never thought I was gonna live to 30"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them"

Agnes Repplier, Writer

Agnes Repplier

"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever"

John Glenn, Astronaut

John Glenn

"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide"

Tecumseh, Leader

"Dying people often become childish"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear than that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient"

Alexander the Great, Leader

Alexander the Great

"And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live"

Joan Baez, Musician

"It is the lot of man but once to die"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"It's better to burn out, then to fade away"

Tom Petty, Musician

"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun"

Mitch Albom, Writer

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