"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."

Mortality, Irony, Sadness, Awareness

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"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."

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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Mortality, Life, Days, Fleeting

"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Mortality, Death, Madness, Life, Fear

"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Mortality, Country, Youth, Death, Aging

"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

Marty Rubin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Existence, Question, Life

"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Mortality, Adolescence, Life, Awareness

"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Mortality, Focus, Clarity, Awareness

"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Mortality, Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

Patrick Ness, American Author

Mortality, Death, Loss, Observation, Emotion

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Mortality, Death, Fear, Life, Truth

"When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone."

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

Mortality, Moment, Loss, Time

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"Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, eventually, from those years we spent together. No leaps or falls. I inhale the little drizzly details of the past and know who I am. What I failed to know before is clearer now, filtered up through time, an experience belonging to no one else, not remotely, no one, anyone, ever. I watch her use the roller to remove lint from her cloth coat. Define coat, I tell myself. Define time, define space."

Life

"American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."

Literature

"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."

Truth

"People will always make comparisons."

People

"There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats."

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"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."

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"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"

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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."

"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."

"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

"When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone."

Explore more quotes by Don DeLillo

"American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."

"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."

"People will always make comparisons."

"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."

"He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows."

"Everybody wants to own the end of the world."

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"