I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.