“Live each day as if it were your last…because one day, you’ll be right.”— Benny Hill, books.google.com
“Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe.”— Sarah J. Maas, Rowan Whitethorn, amazon.com
“These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once.”— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com
“We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don’t quite believe it.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“My spirit is too weak — mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this—caring for this boy—as opposed to some other way? I would always be earthbound; he hadn’t robbed me of my ability to fly or to live foreve…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”— Emily Dickinson, thoughtcatalog.com