Mortality Quotes
Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.
Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
O Time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, whereby all things are consumed!
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
I'd rather have my immortality while I'm alive. I don't care if it lasts beyond me at all. I'd just as soon it didn't.
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