#mortality

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#blowing #bubble #carefree #felt #flavor

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. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#end #know #learn #mortal #mortality

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

#around #avoid #children #doom #fact

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#continued #creativity #current #era #immortality

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

— Ayn Rand

#die #fountainhead #life #live #mortality

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #life #love #lovers #mortality

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#both #cancer #everything #fighting #get

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#immortality #death

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living. ↗

— Epicurus

#mortality #death