Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?

Your faces are very beautiful,but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

She drowned in a coffee cup the size of a swimming pool. It really helped wake me up to my own mortality.

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.

But there was little heart to our lust,only the confusion of not knowinghow long we'd have in our bodies.

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.

Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity....Time is what gives life significance.