grappling with mortality Quotes

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him - as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.