Mortality Quotes

Somehow everything comes with an expiry date. Swordfish expires. Meat sauce expires. Even plastic wrap expires. I'm starting to wonder: is there anything in this world that doesn't?

Let’s not become friends, Jim. You could be dead tomorrow and I’d miss you too much.

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There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

Der tod hat noch kiennen vergessen.

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German proverbs and sayings

Inevitability, Fate

Ironic Quotes

Fleeting glories are the highest expression of mortal beauty, for are we mortals not like the flashing lightning itself? Like a lovely dream or blossoming spark, we shall leave a gorgeous mark on the eternal night sky.

The fleeting nature of this mortal world is the essence of beauty, for are our lives in this world not akin to the levin flash? Yet the might of the divine comes suddenly, and before the roar of eternity, who can stand?

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