11 quotes
“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.”
— Bede
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
— Hector Berlioz
“Although the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves us”
— Irvin Yalom
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
— Dion Boucicault
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
— Seneca
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the clefts of the mountains is there known a spot where, having entered, death could overcome one.”
— Dhammapada
“To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.”
— Samuel Butler
“Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
— Muriel Spark
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
— Elizabeth I
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
— Franz Kafka
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
— William Shakespeare
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