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«Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!»
Author: Francis Beaumont | Keywords: mortality
«Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.»
Author: Jane Howard | About: Children, Parents | Keywords: doom, mortality, shield
«To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.»
Author: Frank Herbert (Author, Writer) | Keywords: mortal, mortality, suspect, terror
«To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.»
Author: Susan Sontag (Activist, Critic, Writer) | Keywords: freezing, melt, mortality, mutability, participate, photographs, relentless, sliced, slices, slicing, testifies, testify, testifying, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
«The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.»
Author: William Dean Howells | Keywords: mortality
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: cackle, cackles, cackling, desiccated, desiccates, diction, dullard, dullards, epigram, fable, featherless, fossil, fossils, jellies, mortality, snore, snores, snoring, surviving, tasse, the pope, withering
«Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: heavily, mortality, unwilling, weighs
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