"He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death."

Mortality, Death, Fate, Life, Destruction

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"He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death."

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"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Mortality, Breath, Life, End, Man

"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Mortality, Truth, Life, Death

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Mortality, Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."

George Orwell, British Author

Mortality, Life, Death, Violence, Fear

"When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Mortality, Heart, Death, Trust, Feelings

"Do not forget you will never live forever."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Mortality, Forget, Life, Forever, Time

"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Values, Materialism, Life

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Dream, Violence, Memory

"I've never once thought about how I was going to die, she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Mortality, Death, Life, Uncertainty, Future

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Time

"The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself."

Spiritual

"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."

Nature

"I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art."

Art

"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."

Happiness

"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."

Illusion

"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."

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"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."

"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."

"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."

"When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take."

"Do not forget you will never live forever."

"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

"I've never once thought about how I was going to die, she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live."

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself."

"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."

"I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art."

"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."

"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."

"Solitude is independence."

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."