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Mortality Quotes
"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly."
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"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."
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"Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death."
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"Although we amplify our cognitive degree of awareness and enhance our appreciation for life experiences by maturing, it also brings us death. Facing a certain death forces a person to examine the worthiness of continuing to live."
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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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"A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!"
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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."
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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."
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"My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed."
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"To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral."
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"The one with karma is known as mortal (jiva) and the one without karma is known as Soul (Self, immortal)."
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"We can learn so much about the living, according to how they treat their dead. And we can see the true colours of people coming out, when we observe how they act and react, to the circumstances that come about after the death of a loved one. Lastly, we learn about the things most important in our lives, when we experience the loss called death. It is extraordinary how death can give back so much to life and to the living."
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"There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk."
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"He dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips, her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins."
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"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."
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"One first celebrates a 'silver jubilee', then a 'golden jubilee', then a 'diamond jubilee', but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation)."
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"Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.Death will commence in five.Five, four.Around her, a parasitic life spray paints her heart.Four, three.Three, two.Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curled lining of her own throat.Death to commence in three, two.Moonlight shines in through the open mout...h.Prepare for the last breath, now.Evacuate.Now.Soul clear of body.Death commences.Now."
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"He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."
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