Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.That Thou from Human Woes is free,The bitter cup I drink today,Tomorrow may be drunk by thee.

Death is never an ending, death is a change;Death is beautiful, for death is strange;Death is one dream out of another flowing.

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

In the old world, we tend to drift along, victims to our own ignorance of the fact, that we can have what we want in the New World.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

O I will accompany the windUntil the chainOf my white bonesDrifts like fine sandAnd I become compassing.I become the wind.- Song of the Wind

We’re all trying to come to terms with our mortality. Well, except for me, because I plan to live forever through the miracle of cloning.

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.

Thine are these orbs of light and shade;Thou madest Life in man and brute;Thou madest Death; and lo, thy footIs on the skull which thou hast made.

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.