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2. “A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Existence, Astonishment, Mortality, Human Condition, Philosophical Reflection
4. “A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.” Virginia Woolf Existential Reflection, Defiant Death, Mortality, Isolation, Connection, Mystery
23. “And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Edgar Allan Poe Mortality, Decay, Existential Dread, Philosophical Reflection, Societal Critique, Thematic Depth
Mortality Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Existence, Astonishment, Mortality, Human Condition, Philosophical Reflection
4. “A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
Virginia Woolf Existential Reflection, Defiant Death, Mortality, Isolation, Connection, Mystery
23. “And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
Edgar Allan Poe Mortality, Decay, Existential Dread, Philosophical Reflection, Societal Critique, Thematic Depth
