Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it’s dark to me.We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth–we call...

The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame...

Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity….Time is what gives life significance.

Accepting one’s age and mortality is a sign that you’ve now become an adult. Once you realize you no longer fit in the same jeans you did when you were 30, and the spicy foods...

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to...

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we’re likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we’re forced to make difficult choices...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...

Dès que Séraphine l’a laissé seul, Gontran se jette à genoux au pied du lit ; il enfonce son front dans les draps, mais ne parvient pas à pleurer ; aucun élan ne soulève son...

There are some fights none of us can win.

I now inhabit a life I don’t deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn’t end any time soon

I know exactly what you mean.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

If you can’t sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what’s it there for?

I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

Sometimes it seemed as if he’d always been very old. People said that time lasted for ever when you were young. That was lies. Lies and rosy spectacles. His spectacles were steel frames and time...

This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from...

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity...

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

This guy has a look on his face like he’s just realized that one day he will most assuredly die. Killing someone has a way of focusing our minds on our own mortality. I mean...

We know from studies that these treatments do reduce mortality considerably, but we were interested in whether they work equally well in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are...

I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet:...

A Cathedral Façade at MidnightAlong the sculptures of the western wallI watched the moonlight creeping:It moved as if it hardly moved at allInch by inch thinly peepingRound on the pious figures of freestone, broughtAnd poised...

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. ‘What did they do to you?’Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. ‘They’-he looks about...

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

Nothing can last forever. There isn’t any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn’t fade out at last.

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential...

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I’m not. I’m only afraid of dying wrong.

Me, I’m living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino’s disease, which could lay me in the grave most anytime. Not that I mind too much; I’ve done everything...

I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2...

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly

I sometimes think that never blows so redThe Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;That every Hyacinth the Garden wearsDropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.

Be Mindful of Death” (Memento Mori)

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even...

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our...

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev’n then, shall my cold dust remain

[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to itan infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving forimmortality. For there is...

That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He...

I don’t see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.