Mortality.
Famous quotes regarding the transience of humanity:
“Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
The thing that have been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die…
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth the beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man have no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes.
‘the solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind; we are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded by a sleep.’
Shakespeare – The Tempest.
“Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?” Edgar Allen Poe.
“finally I understand,
The feelings of the few,
Ashes and diamonds
Foe and friend,
We were all equal in the end”
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut.
'All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
They have their exists and their entrances' Shakespeare.
'This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper'
TS Eliot - The Hollow Men.
'The Heaven(s) and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away' Jesus of Nazareth.
'From the moment of my birth,
till the instant of my death.
there are patterns I must follow,
just as I must breathe each breath.
Like a rat in a maze,
the path before me rise,
and the pattern never alters,
until the rat dies.'
Simon & Garfunkel.
Fact.
Rigor Mortis
If you talk to someone who works at a mortuary, you will soon discover that when you are dead, you are indeed permanently deceased. They work with human corpses each day, and will be able to tell you irriffutably that when you are dead, you are dead. (A corpse.)
