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Don't forget, you are going to die.
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Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. — Paulo Coelho
October 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. — Paulo Coelho
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy de Maupassant
October 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy de Maupassant
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham
October 12, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. — Don DeLillo
October 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. — Don DeLillo
I hope you are spending your time wisely.
October 11, 2026 at 11:22 AM
I hope you are spending your time wisely.
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn. — Joanne Harris
October 11, 2026 at 7:13 AM
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn. — Joanne Harris
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. — Seneca
October 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. — Seneca
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost; Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. — William Shakespeare
October 10, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost; Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. — William Shakespeare
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. — Margaret Atwood
October 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. — Margaret Atwood
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. — Arthur Schnitzler
October 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. — Arthur Schnitzler
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is. — Ernest Cline
October 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is. — Ernest Cline
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. — Haruki Murakami
October 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. — Haruki Murakami
You are a temporary arrangement of atoms that will soon be rearranged.
October 8, 2026 at 6:05 PM
You are a temporary arrangement of atoms that will soon be rearranged.
That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead. — José Saramago
October 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead. — José Saramago
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. — Fernando Pessoa
October 8, 2026 at 7:38 AM
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. — Fernando Pessoa
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. — Virginia Woolf
October 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. — Virginia Woolf
Every mirror you look into is showing you something temporary.
October 7, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Every mirror you look into is showing you something temporary.
But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed. — Hafsah Faizal
October 7, 2026 at 8:05 AM
But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed. — Hafsah Faizal
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. — Emil Cioran
October 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. — Emil Cioran
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. — Guy de Maupassant
October 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. — Guy de Maupassant
Death should take me while I am in the mood. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
October 6, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Death should take me while I am in the mood. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
One day your name will be spoken for the last time and no one will notice.
October 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
One day your name will be spoken for the last time and no one will notice.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... Would you slow down? Or speed up? — Chuck Palahniuk
October 5, 2026 at 12:01 PM
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... Would you slow down? Or speed up? — Chuck Palahniuk
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. — George R.R. Martin
October 5, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. — George R.R. Martin
Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth. — Svetlana Aleksievich
October 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth. — Svetlana Aleksievich