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99. “Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!”
William Blake
Mortality, Empathy, Nature, Philosophical Question, Poetic Reflection, Existential Insight
104. “Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.” Aldous Huxley Time, Mortality, Emotions, Human Condition, Aging, Philosophical Reflection
107. “She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.” Marcel Proust Tributes, Mortality, Useless Objects, Indestructible Gifts, Cluttered House, Failed Persuasion
109. “We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.” Hermann Hesse Fear, Transience, Creation, Mortality, Art, Existence
Mortality Quotes by Famous Authors
99. “Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!”
William Blake Mortality, Empathy, Nature, Philosophical Question, Poetic Reflection, Existential Insight
104. “Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.”
Aldous Huxley Time, Mortality, Emotions, Human Condition, Aging, Philosophical Reflection
107. “She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.”
Marcel Proust Tributes, Mortality, Useless Objects, Indestructible Gifts, Cluttered House, Failed Persuasion
109. “We fear death, we shudder at life’s instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.”
Hermann Hesse Fear, Transience, Creation, Mortality, Art, Existence
