"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

Mortality, Death, Regret, Reflection

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"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

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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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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."

Courage

"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

Legacy

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire."

Life

"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."

History

"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."

Emotion

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

Literature

"There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sire, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both."

Education

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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 Samuel Johnson

"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."

"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."

"I have found men more kind than I expected and less just."

"You can never be wise unless you love reading."

"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire."

"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."