Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.
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