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Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials. — Columba Stewart

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. — Ayn Rand

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. — V.C. Andrews

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. — H. Rider Haggard

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between
Is my journey's end coming? — Herman Melville

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture - and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death. — Paul Kalanithi

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. — William Wordsworth

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. — Criss Jami

And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality ... it is idle to try to alarm me — Walt Whitman

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud. — Marty Rubin

You have never talked to a mere mortal. — C.S. Lewis

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. — R.D. Laing

I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Death is every mortal's life to be alive! — Munia Khan

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. — Gary Shteyngart

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality — Udayveer Singh

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not. — Aysha Taryam

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off. — Siri Hustvedt

Human says time goes by -
Time says human goes by — Anonymous

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean "More people died" don't say "Mortality rose. — C.S. Lewis

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. — Joseph Conrad

Death like style is the removal of rubbish. — Will Durant

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it. — Bruce Sterling

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish. — Clive James

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. — Criss Jami

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time. — Neil Gaiman

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life. — Alexandre Dumas

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought. — Frank Herbert

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension. — Karen Marie Moning

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do. — Rose Wynters

If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. — Darren Shan

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. — Nick Tosches

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana

To accept a little death is worse than death itself. — Frank Herbert

Mort isn't my name, of course - I was creative director of mortality, and Dr. Jeth had us all go by titles. — Tom Francis

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word. — Ivan Doig

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind. — Andrew R. George

When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end. — William Shakespeare

Your death rides a fast camel. — Victor Robert Lee

None of us are getting out of here alive". — R. Alan Woods

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. — Cassandra Clare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
die. — William Shakespeare

Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples. — Wildbow

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. — Muriel Spark

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. — Randy Alcorn

We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves. — Marty Rubin

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point. — Aimee Bender

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive. — Garth Risk Hallberg

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard

There is only one true wealth in all the universe
living time. — Frank Herbert

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain — Alexander Pope

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love. — Rick Yancey

A life is not a waste of time — Nalini Singh

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. — David Gerrold

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. — T. S. Eliot

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality. — Rollo May

Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing. — Conrad Aiken

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying? — Gore Vidal

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies ... — Joseph Conrad

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end. — Jessica Khoury

Malady of mortality — Anne Rice

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori) — Peter Swanson

As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality. — Bruce R. McConkie

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left. — Stieg Larsson

But maybe life was like that: it held your death, waiting, and you had no choice but to walk toward it if you wanted a life. — Michelle West

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift. — Sonia Sotomayor