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Explore Books, Authors and Common Highlights on Mortality
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A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Authentic existence involves confronting our own mortality.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Their short lives are filled with intense experiences.
From The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
In the end, you will be just another person who has passed through this world.
Death is not the end; it is the end of a particular way of being.
In the end, we’re all just dust in the wind.
Death is a part of life, yet it remains a taboo subject.
Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.
It’s a hard thing to go through life knowing that you’re going to die and not knowing how.
From The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
We are all just one accident away from being a cadaver.
We can learn a lot from the way our bodies decompose.
The human body is the only machine that breaks down and doesn’t have a warranty.
Human bodies are remarkably adaptable, in life and in death.
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The forgotten room reminded us of the fragility of life.
When you think about it, we are all just bags of organs.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
We’re all just a bunch of cells, and it’s all going to end up in the ground.
Henrietta’s cells had a life of their own.
Manuscripts don't burn.
The body is not a temple, but a tomb.
Her cells live on, while her story remained largely untold.