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Mortality Quotes
"To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world."
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"LIFE - Death's Very Emissary."
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
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"The gods grant nothing more than life,So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless."
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"What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?"
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"Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us."
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"When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life's foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death's true purpose is to teach us how to live."
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"It is not death we fear but the thought of it."
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"Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was."
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"No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world."
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"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."
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"Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so."
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"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."
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"They killed him because he was too innocent to live."
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"Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave."
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"And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world."
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"Everything in the world has a life span and We (the Self) are without a life span, so how can the two correlate? To make association with those with a life span (mortal), we too have to become one with a life span. And that has created all this fiasco."
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"Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it."
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"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little."
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"Life is a constant process of dying."
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"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral-both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere."
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"I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for the sake of a hopeless hope. He wanted to die as himself out of his life. He didn't want his death to be the end of a technological process."
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"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."
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"How quickly the dead faded into each other."
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"We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off."
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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."
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"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."
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"They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me."
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