"You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed..."

Mortality, Aging, Body, Time, Sensitivity

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"You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed..."

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

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

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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

Marty Rubin, American Author

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

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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