Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

In the long run we are all dead.

Our time on Earth is so random.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

We are mortals, we will die one day.