Mortality Cycle Quotes

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

The living are just the dead on holiday

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Where all life dies death lives.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

Kellis-Amberlee is a fact of existence. You live, you die, and then you come back to life, get up, and shamble around trying to eat your former friends and loved ones. That’s the way it is for everyone.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

In the midst of death life persists.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.