#mortality

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth---and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up---that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#inspirational #life-and-living #mortality #inspirational

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#mortality #time #change

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#immortality #pirates #death

We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived. ↗

— Michelle Richmond

#death

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

— Nancy Straight

#life

The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate. The feeling of the vanity of the passing world kindles love in us, the only thing that triumphs over the vain and transitory, the only thing that fills life again and eternalizes it. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#life

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#hundred #life #life is a #mortality #percent

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#empire #ethically #faith #give #immortality

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying. ↗

— William De Morgan

#being #dying #fame #hall #i

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. ↗

— Jodi Rell

#cancer #confronted #had #i #mortality