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“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.”

— Bryant McGill

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Humanity’s next targets are likely to be immortality, happiness and divinity,”

— GBF Summary

“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.”

— Adam B. Ford

“you are not thinking of finitude you are contemplating an apotheosis in which a temporary state of mind will become symmetrical above the flesh…

— William Faulkner

“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes…

— Bertrand Russell

“Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.”

— Toba Beta

“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to put us…

— Luigi Pirandello

“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too afraid to…

— Joe Meno