consciousness of mortality Quotes

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

I've always been very aware of my own humanity. The limits of my humanity.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the idea of immortality. Long before that (in evolutionary terms) all species with brains have the survival instinct in some form. So, I am just saying that there are many existent proofs of species that have one, but not the other.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.