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Topic·Mortality✕clear

Sic transit gloria mundi.

★ 6.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Time’s the king of men. He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre · 1608

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play)

And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 4.7

Play · Comedy (play)

The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest · 1616

★ 4.7

Sonnet · Poem

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

Men must endure Their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking · 2005

★ 1.0

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