Clock Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Most lives vanish. A person dies, and little by little all traces of that life disappear. An inventor survives in his inventions, an architect…

— Paul Auster

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet…

— Oscar Wilde

“Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which we finally, in one…

— Azar Nafisi

“Now I saw his lifeless state. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with…

— George Orwell

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Death stood alone, watching the wheat dance in the wind. Of course, it was only a metaphor. People were more than corn. They whirled…

— Terry Pratchett

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I…

— Virginia Woolf

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are…

— Gautama Buddha

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

— Edgar Morin

“Suddenly I began to find a strange meaning in old fairy-tales; woods, rivers, mountains, became living beings; mysterious life filled the night; with new…

— P.D. Ouspensky