Memento Mori
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Quotes about death, so we may better live.
Those who fear they shall suffer are already suffering from what they fear.
January 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Those who fear they shall suffer are already suffering from what they fear.
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
January 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
Each moment is a birth and a death. You flow between these two banks, birth and death. Your river of life is possible only because of birth and death - and it is each moment that it is happening.
January 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Each moment is a birth and a death. You flow between these two banks, birth and death. Your river of life is possible only because of birth and death - and it is each moment that it is happening.
Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past, or future, or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive.
January 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past, or future, or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive.
Transient are all compounded things, subject to arrive and vanish; Having come into existence they pass away; Good is the peace when they forever cease. - Sakra
January 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Transient are all compounded things, subject to arrive and vanish; Having come into existence they pass away; Good is the peace when they forever cease. - Sakra
Life is uncertain, death is certain.
January 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Life is uncertain, death is certain.
December 23, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see.
-Kerry Livgren
-Kerry Livgren
December 9, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see.
-Kerry Livgren
-Kerry Livgren
Death is not a failure to be denied and avoided. Death is a teacher to spend time with.
December 8, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Death is not a failure to be denied and avoided. Death is a teacher to spend time with.
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
-Vicki Harrison
-Vicki Harrison
November 29, 2024 at 4:50 AM
Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
-Vicki Harrison
-Vicki Harrison
Perfection is a myth. There is only failing and learning, then death.
November 27, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Perfection is a myth. There is only failing and learning, then death.
If I were to die at the end of this breath, what would I want my state of mind to be?
-Nikki Mirghafori
-Nikki Mirghafori
November 27, 2024 at 1:44 AM
If I were to die at the end of this breath, what would I want my state of mind to be?
-Nikki Mirghafori
-Nikki Mirghafori
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
-Trent Reznor
-Trent Reznor
November 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
-Trent Reznor
-Trent Reznor
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
-Haruki Murakami
-Haruki Murakami
November 24, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
-Haruki Murakami
-Haruki Murakami
No matter how I try the years just flow by like a broken down dam.
-John Prine
-John Prine
November 21, 2024 at 9:35 PM
No matter how I try the years just flow by like a broken down dam.
-John Prine
-John Prine
In 100 years we'll all be dead.
But here and now, we are ALIVE.
-Terry Pratchett
But here and now, we are ALIVE.
-Terry Pratchett
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
In 100 years we'll all be dead.
But here and now, we are ALIVE.
-Terry Pratchett
But here and now, we are ALIVE.
-Terry Pratchett
Time is a luxury that does not last long.
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Time is a luxury that does not last long.
You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay.
-Terry Pratchett
-Terry Pratchett
November 19, 2024 at 4:19 AM
You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay.
-Terry Pratchett
-Terry Pratchett
Death is the boundary we need to measure the precious texture of our lives.
-Kilroy Oldster
-Kilroy Oldster
November 17, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Death is the boundary we need to measure the precious texture of our lives.
-Kilroy Oldster
-Kilroy Oldster
Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.
Time is the substance I am made of... It is the fire that consumes me. But I am the fire.
-Jorge Luis Borges
-Jorge Luis Borges
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Time is the substance I am made of... It is the fire that consumes me. But I am the fire.
-Jorge Luis Borges
-Jorge Luis Borges