"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Mortality, Sea, Death, Fate, Grave

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"But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Mortality, Life, Death, Uncertainty, Afterlife

"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Humor, Irony, Morality

"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Mortality, Death, Luck, Life

"If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

Mortality, Time, Life, Awareness

"Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Mortality, Life, Death, Forgotten

"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Mortality, Irony, Sadness, Awareness

"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Mortality, Friendship, Story, Grief

"It is hard to die unmourned."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Mourning, Life, Sadness

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"When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, and the soft murmurs of the breeze that scattered her hair and freshened her cheek, and the dashing of the waters that has no beginning or end."

Serenity

"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"

Creation

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

Morality

"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."

Equality

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Change

"Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner."

Fear

"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye."

Anxiety

"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

Emotion

"Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded-a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures."

Ethics

"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

Memory