Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?
What tho’ we wade in wealth, or soar in fame?
Earth’s highest station ends in “Here he lies,”
And “dust to dust” concludes her noblest song.
--OWEN D. YOUNG (1874–1962)

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
--VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941)

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space that I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? . . . The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
--BLAISE PASCAL (1623–1662)

Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?
--EURIPIDES (C. 484–406 B.C.)

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning.
--ROBERT QUILLEN (1887–1948)

Isaiah 38:17-18 -New Living Translation
Yes, it was good for me to suffer this anguish,
for you have rescued me from death
and have forgiven all my sins.
For the dead cannot praise you;
they cannot raise their voices in praise.
Those who go down to destruction
can no longer hope in your faithfulness.

Eccles. 9:5-6 -New Living Translation
The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered. [6] Whatever they did in their lifetime—loving, hating, envying—is all long gone. They no longer have a part in anything here on earth.

Eccles. 9:10 -New Living Translation
Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Eccles. 5:15 -New Living Translation
People who live only for wealth come to the end of their lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day they were born.

Eccles. 6:6 -New Living Translation
He might live a thousand years twice over but not find contentment. And since he must die like everyone else—well, what's the use?

Eccles. 6:10 -New Living Translation
Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there's no use arguing with God about your destiny.

Eccles. 8:8 -New Living Translation
None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue those who practice it.

Eccles. 12:7 -New Living Translation
For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Psalm 39:4 -Message Translation
"Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.
Remind me that my days are numbered,
and that my life is fleeing away.

Hebrews 9:27 -New Living Translation
And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment.

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