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Quotes about Mortality

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Alcuin of York
(735 - 804)
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay, O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, wayfarer, world renowned, I was: what I am now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.
- (his own epitaph)
Anatole France
(1844 - 1924)
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
AnonymousI shall become immortal, even if it kills me!
H. L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.
Henny Youngman
(1906 - 1998)
A wonderful doctor gave this guy 6 months to live. When he couldn't pay his bills, he gave him another 6 months.
Henry David ThoreauRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Herb CaenThe only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908 - )
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Samuel Butler
(1835 - 1902)
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- (writer)
Susan ErtzMillions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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