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Mortality Quotes
"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there."
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"Mento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?"
20
"Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it."
13
"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."
13
"Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful."
10
"Everybody dies. Including your messiahs. And gods."
10
"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."
10
"His long wait is almost done. I am sending Balon Swann to Sunspear, to deliver him the head of Gregor Clegane. Ser Balon would have another task as well, but that part was best left unsaid."Ah. Ser Harys Swyft fumbled at his funny little beard with thumb and forefinger. "He is dead then? Ser Gregor?"I would think so, my lord, Aurane Waters said dryly. "I am told that removing the head from the body is often mortal."
10
"Finally there is nothing here for death to take away."
9
"A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our existence reassures us that how we live does make a difference. Because our allotted time for living is finite, we must make the most of each day."
9
"Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves."
9
"I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer."
8
"Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are."
8
"Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that strikes randomly. The only truth is that nobody is going to make it out alive. We are all living on probation and our expiry date is indefinite. ['Living on probation']"
8
"Whether you lay cold in the ground or warm in an urn the turmoils of life aren't a concern. For some this may be the perfect rhyme except for those you leave behind..."
8
"When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first.Even I didn't jump first.Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.Beautiful."
8
"Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die."
8
"I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed for that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you."
8
"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."
7
"That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive."
7
"You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do."What do you make, Madam ?"Many things."For instance ---"For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly ,Shrouds."The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive ."
7
"How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."
7
"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."
6
"While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born."
6
"One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason."
6
"A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride."
6
"Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die."
6
"Let me diefrom having being drunk onindigo skies, my liver...overflowing with stars."
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