Impending Death Quotes

• Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

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  Jhonen Vasquez

  Zest   Death And Dying   Persons  

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez,

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• We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

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  Courtney Summers

  Lunch   Breakfast   Dinner  

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• There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

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  Roger Ebert

  Boredom   Existential   Impending Death  

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• He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn’t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

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  Irvine Welsh

  Believe   Reality   Live Your Life  

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• The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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  Mark Twain

  Funny   Death   Exaggeration Is  

  Quoted in N.Y. Journal, 2 June 1897. These words were preceded by "James Ross Clemens, of St. Louis, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness." The quotation is usually reported as "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Much earlier (5 July 1863), the following appeared in a letter by Twain to the Territorial Enterprise: "There was a report about town, last night, that Charles Strong, Esq

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• There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

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  George Orwell

  Safety   Soul   Together  

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

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• We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.

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  Michelle Richmond

  Children   War   Pride  

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