Quotes About Mortality

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Discordantly—out of the mists—he heard her voice: "Dead faces," she said whitely, "they're all the same. . . . They don't, I mean, tell of the person as they were alive.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

On a personal level, all of us have to come to terms with the fact that, sooner or later, we will die. And yet today no aspect of human existence, not even the ending of it, is immune to the hegemonic pretensions of neoclassical economic thought. Not only the intellectual poverty, but also the emotional poverty, of what it has to say about death give us little reason to believe that it will be able to face up to the fact of its own mortality. 4.

Men have a higher death rate than women for nine out of ten leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, injuries, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes, pneumonia and flu, HIV infection, suicide, and homicide. We all die of something, but if you're a guy, you are more likely to get a serious disease and die from it than are women.

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

And a soul is just a delusion that lives in the body. No delusion survives death. Death is more honest than that.

The face that stares back at you from the mirror later in life is so different than when you're young. There's a winnowing away and a shutting down. A sense of something having been taken from you and you don't know exactly what it is, just that it isn't there anymore.

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

Physical pain always mimes death and the infliction of physical pain is always a mock execution.

Lo más importante de esta vida era que moríamos. Morían todas las personas que iban al mercado, y todas las que vivían dentro de las casas. También morían las señoras que les daban de comer a los cisnes, en Sidney.

Lo más importante de esta vida era que moríamos.

se dijo con tristeza; el muerto era un yo descalzo

Se muere con demasiada facilidad. Morir debería ser mucho más difícil. PDH

Ben poco del male che si può dire dell'uomo e dell'umanità io non l'ho detto. E tuttavia l'orgoglio che provo per essa é ancora così grande che solo una cosa io odio veramente: il suo nemico, la morte.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

What is man? Dust turned to hope.

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

Death," Kalman, the grizzled master, told me, "is being without. arms or legs or mouth or head; it is all eyes. If you ever meet a. creature with eyes everywhere, you can be sure it is death.

Death alone is invisible. Man's end was the same everywhere.

you should know that the dead, because they are no longer free, are no longer able to suffer. Only the living can.