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It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal.

John Donne

On death.

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Donne, John. A sermon preached at Whitehall. 8 Mar. 1622, Whitehall, Westminster, Central London, England, UK.

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Donne, John. "From a sermon preached at Whitehall (8 March 1622)." John Donne: The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons, edited by John Carey. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Oscar Wilde

Intentions

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part I." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Age will not be defied.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis "Of Regimen of Health." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Regimen of Health." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Dead Poets Society

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Leonard Cohen

Anthem

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Cohen, Leonard. "Anthem." The Future. Columbia Records, 1992.

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I heard the old, old men say,
“Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.”

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

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Burns, Robert. "Despondency: An Ode." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, I. 4.

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Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes.

A Man for All Seasons (film)

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A Man for All Seasons. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Highland Films, 1966.

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You're on earth, there's no cure for that!

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett, Samuel. Fin de partie. Directed by Roger Blin. Performed by Roger Blin, Jean Martin, Georges Adet, and Christine Tsingos. 3 Apr. 1957, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 2, st. 98.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 98.

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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger

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Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 11

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Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 11.

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It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through.

Before Midnight

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Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

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Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "D. H. Lawrence." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

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Santayana, George. "War Shrines." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

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How beautiful is all this visible world!
How glorious in its action and itself!
But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make
A conflict of its elements, and breathe
The breath of degradation and of pride.

Lord Byron

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Lord Byron. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem. London: John Murray, 1817, act 1, sc. 2, l. 37.

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Lord Byron. "Manfred." Lord Byron: Selected Poems, edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 1, sc. 2, l. 37.

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

On people and their relationship to time.

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, no. 25.

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Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die.

The Verve

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Bitter Sweet Symphony

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Ashcroft, Richard. "Bitter Sweet Symphony." Performed by The Verve. Urban Hymns. Hut Records, 1997.

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How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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There's a saying, every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown.

The Twilight Zone

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"Escape Clause." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Mitchell Leisen, season 1, episode 6, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1959.

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