mortality acknowledgment Quotes

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.