Quotes About Finitude

Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End. An ending is an arbitrary thing, an act of cowardice or fatigue, an expedient disguised as an aesthetic choice or, worse, a moral commentary on the finitude of life.

Rascals, would you live forever?

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

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Bertrand Russell once lamented "that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve a life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins…

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die.

the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.

Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort. A man don't have that comfort, he's the only living thing that conceives of death, that knows what it is.

Visto che siamo al mondo, stiamo tutti morendo.

You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude.

These are what people really want, and they want them infinitely. To state the full truth, then, we must say that what people really would like to have is infinite being, infinite knowledge, and infinite bliss. Moksha is the release from the finitude that restricts us from the limitless being, consciousness, and bliss we desire.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

We're all born to die, you idiot. Let the span last a single heartbeat, let it last a thousand years. Stretch the heartbeat out, crush down the centuries, it's no different. They feel the same, when the end arrives. Gods, they feel the same!

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted.

Everything about everybody is nothing but diversion from death.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

life without the finitude of death—the inconceivable finality of one's own death—would be intolerable.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity

We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.