Age of reason Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting and fretting…

— David Hewson

“For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity to perish rather, swallowed up and lost…

— John Milton

“Eat to Live, Not Live to Eat, Be Shadows of the Night, Be One With the Darkness, And Never Let in the Light”

— Pierre Roustan

“For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.”

— Anonymous

“Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life,…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what…

— Julian Barnes

“We must eat, drink, sleep, be idle, have sex, love, touch the sweetest things in life and yet not succumb to them.”

— Lauren Redniss

“We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.”

— Anna Maxted

“Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.”

— Marcel Proust

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard