Joseph Addison Quotes

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

The sole equality on earth is death.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Death is a very important part of life.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.