Quotes About Finitude

Así pues, hombre, quienquiera que seas, mira ese último fin que es tu muerte y el polvo que se adueña de todo hombre que haya nacido de mujer pues así como salió desnudo del vientre de su madre también desnudo volverá a marcharse como vino.

Everything that gets born dies.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

We're going to die and not even know. We'll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won't any longer be witnesses to it. We won't have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We'll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!

To dust is only to forestall burial

There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it.

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

When the commonplace We must all die tranfors itself suddenly into the acute consciousness I must die - and soon, then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

You're always condemned to die. It's just a matter of timing.

For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence.

Don't worry if you don't accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing—even the very thing that tried to kill us.

The meaning of life is that it ends

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

Profundamente, cada passo na vida é um passo na morte e a lembrança disto, um chamado do Nada. Despido do sentido metafísico, o homem ordinário não tem consciência de uma entrada progressiva na morte, ainda que ele não escape mais do que os outros a este destino inexorável.

Man will not last. Ambushed by exhaustion, he will have to pay for his too-original career. For it would be inconceivable and contra naturam that he drag on much longer and come to a good end. This prospect is depressing, hence likely.

We have always been dying, and yet death has lost none of its freshness, its originality. Herein lies the secret of secrets.

La desproporción entre la infinitud del mundo y la finitud del hombre es un serio motivo de desesperación;

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.