Born Quote by Tom Stoppard

“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred…

— Tom Stoppard

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

— Tom Stoppard

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

— Frederick Lenz

“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on…

— Wallace Stegner

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

— Tom Stoppard

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

— Tennessee Williams

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You…

— Alix Kates Shulman

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be…

— John Connolly

“Now I will say it. What I, personally, believe about time. To sense time, to speak about time you have to sense that something…

— Peter Høeg

We can't choose how we die, but we can choose how we live. So we need to make every moment count because we never…

— Nishan Panwar

“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.”

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

“Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without…

— Ian Caldwell