Quotes About Mortality

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . . I want to achieve it through not dying.

Well, freedom is wonderful. On the other hand, if you're dead, it's a tremendous drawback to your sex life.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Think about death make us live better.

As a race, we have allowed ourselves to become accustomed to the idea that the proper way to die is in bed, at a ripe age. It is a delusion. The normal end for all creatures comes suddenly.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Si la sustancia durable del hombre no es otra sino el miedo; y si la vida es un inaplazable mortal miedo a la muerte, puesto que ya no puede sentir miedo, puesto que ya no puede morir, sólo un muerto, profunda y valerosamente, puede disponerse a vivir.

I knew my son was mortal.

Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them.

We die, governments change, ideologies evolve, borders disappear, rivers merge, islands sink, trees rot, bones dissolve, even nature expires one day. But the universe exists, with stars or without stars, with air or without air, infinitely and unimaginably beyond man. I know that the infinite world is there beyond trivial ideologies or politics. And we only have one life to live.

Me alivia que sea la voz lo último que vaya a desaparecer —dije—. De esta forma, me veo con mayor predisposición a afrontar el instante final de la manera más tranquila y serena posible, sin tener que pasar por un calvario de dolor, sufrimiento y miseria

Muhammed ?kbal'e göre, Nietzsche gelsefesindeki 'insan üstü', Hallâc'?n Enel Hak'?n?n Bat?'daki yans?mas?d?r. Tek fark, Hallâc'?n mollalar eliyle katledilmesine kar??n Nietzsche'nin aptal doktorlar eliyle öldürülmesidir.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead -- when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.