90 quotes found
“There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you arent even a memory, your...”
“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain”
“Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.”
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has ...”
“All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.”
“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”
“Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us...”
“Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.”
“And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it w...”
“There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.”
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we shallBreathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!”
“An awareness of mortality is a heavy price to pay for sentience”
“That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.”
“In the end, the body betrayed everyone.”
“They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them...”
“The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.”
“I know that we have to live each moment because we wont be here for ever, and that I wouldnt want to be anyway, because knowing somethings going to end makes you appreciate it more, makes you want ...”
“the unconscious is so seductive because mortality is alien to it”
“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeralboth memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the...”
