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Mortality Quotes

"Dying is an art.Like everything else,I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I guess you could say I have a call."

"Dying is an art.Like everything else,I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I guess you could say I have a call."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Mortality, Death, Art, Life, Pain

5

"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Mortality, Death, Absurdity, Humor, Existence

5

"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."

"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."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Mortality, Death, Peace, Acceptance, Life

5

"We die a day at a time."

"We die a day at a time."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Mortality, Death, Life, Time, Existence

5

"They killed him because he was too innocent to live."

"They killed him because he was too innocent to live."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Mortality, Innocence, Death, Life, Truth

5

"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."

"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."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Mortality, Death, Life, Acceptance

5

"Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave."

"Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Mortality, Grave, Preparation, Death, Life

5

"Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats."

"Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Mortality, Writing, Death, Triumph, Life

5

"The best part of my life is ,My death will not cause pain for anyone."

"The best part of my life is ,My death will not cause pain for anyone."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Mortality, Death, Peace, Happiness, Acceptance

5

"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."

"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."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Mortality, Death, Acceptance, Life, Presence

5

"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."

"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Mortality, Burden, Life, Memory, Existence

5

"Death actually never kills you, time does."

"Death actually never kills you, time does."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Mortality, Death, Time, End, Life

5

"I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more."

"I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Life, Breath

5

"Life is only precious because it ends, kid."

"Life is only precious because it ends, kid."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Mortality, Life, Truth, Power, Regret

5

"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."

"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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Mortality, Death, Fearlessness, Life, Courage

5

"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."

"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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Mortality, Truth, Regret, Fate, Wisdom

5

"The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks."

"The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks."

John Updike, American Novelist

Mortality, Nature, Aging, Existence

5

"Immortality doesn't fit with death,as mortal doesn't fit with eternity."

"Immortality doesn't fit with death,as mortal doesn't fit with eternity."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Mortality, Eternity, Truth, Wisdom, Power

5

"Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time."

"Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Mortality, Fear, Death, Time

5

"The only certainty life contains is death."

"The only certainty life contains is death."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Mortality, Death, Certainty, Life, Existence

5

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Mortality, Truth, Life, Today, Memory

4

"Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!)."

"Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!)."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Mortality, Death, Truth, Power, Wisdom

4

"Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."

"Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Mortality, Life, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

4

"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."

"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."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Mortality, Death, Tranquility, End, Life

4

"All who are born are always dying."

"All who are born are always dying."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Mortality, Life, Death, Cycle, Reality

4

"...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?""In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty," he replied."

"...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?""In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty," he replied."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Desire, Fantasy, Legacy

4

"Life is a constant process of dying."

"Life is a constant process of dying."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Mortality, Life, Death, Existence, Time

4

"Are-you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor-good lord. I've forgotten your name.""Hell of a thing.""Barney!"He clutched her."No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered."I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!"He laughed."Don't please laugh at me.""Not meant unkindly."A long silence, then. Then, "Oof."

"Are-you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor-good lord. I've forgotten your name.""Hell of a thing.""Barney!"He clutched her."No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered."I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!"He laughed."Don't please laugh at me.""Not meant unkindly."A long silence, then. Then, "Oof."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Mortality, Dying, Name, Silence, Passion

4

"He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone - one mind less, one world less."

"He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone - one mind less, one world less."

George Orwell, British Author

Mortality, Friendship, Loss, Life

4

"They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me."

"They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Mortality, Death, Life, Memory, Reflection

4

"Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death."

"Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Sadness, Acceptance, Beauty

4

"We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing."

"We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Mortality, Death, Love, Fear, Humanity

4

"The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs."

"The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Mortality, Death, Life, Land, Justice

4

"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."

"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Mortality, Death, Peace, Acceptance, Fate

4

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Mortality, Violence, Absurdity, Power

4

"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Mortality, Friendship, Story, Grief

4

"Damn. A dead body. I hate it when that happens."

"Damn. A dead body. I hate it when that happens."

Jill Shalvis, American Novelist

Mortality, Death, Horror, Emotion, Reality

4

"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."

"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Mortality, Life, Death, Perspective, Time

4

"Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death."

"Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Mortality, Life, Death, Time, Values

4

"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."

"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

Mortality, Awareness, Time, Life

4

"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."

"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."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Mortality, Life, Truth, Wisdom, Power

4

"And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying."

"And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying."

John Green, American Author

Mortality, Worry, Life, Dying, Emotion

4

"Her words didn't have the acrid smell of death."

"Her words didn't have the acrid smell of death."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Mortality, Death, Word, Life, Memory

4

"Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything."

"Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Mortality, Rest, Peace, Existence

4

"If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."

"If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

Mortality, Memory, Appreciation, Loss

4

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

"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

3

"I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day."

"I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Mortality, Life, Death, Harm, Humanity

3

"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Time, Meaning, Aging

3

"She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible."

"She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Mortality, Death, Peace, Eternity, Existence

3

"Death is the only serious preoccupation in life."

"Death is the only serious preoccupation in life."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Mortality, Death, Life, Focus

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