Quotes About Mortality

Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose.

Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never; I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

It is no gift I tender, A loan is all I can; But do not scorn the lender; Man gets no more from man. Oh, mortal man may borrow What mortal man can lend; And 'twill not end to-morrow, Though sure enough 'twill end. If death and time are stronger, A love may yet be strong; The world will last for longer, But this will last for long.

I Hoed and trenched and weeded, And took the flowers to fair: I brought them home unheeded; The hue was not the wear. So up and down I sow them For lads like me to find, When I shall lie below them, A dead man out of mind. Some seed the birds devour, And some the season mars, But here and there will flower The solitary stars, And fields will yearly bear them As light-leaved spring comes on, And luckless lads will wear them When I am dead and gone.

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life, to be sure, Is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, And we were young.

The members of the congregation looked as though they'd just dropped in for a rest on the way to the grave.

La vie nous habitue à la mort par le sommeil. La vie nous avertit qu'il existe une autre vie par le rêve.

Don't be sentimental. Everything dies

Death will obliterate everything soon

Though the gates that stand between the mortal world and the immortal Realm of Chaos are now closed to me, still I would rather die having glimpsed eternity than never to have stirred the cold furrow of mortal life. I embrace death without regret as I embraced life without fear

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, all that stuff. Death takes everyone. Most of us too early, a few of us not early enough.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

Itulah dunia Gus Miek yang sebenarnya, yang ditinggalkannya untuk beberapa bulan mungkin hanya sebagai sebuah kelengkapan lakonnya yang panjang. Agar ia tetap masih menjadi manusia, bukan malaikat.

I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick.

Nunca temí morir, me daba miedo estar solo. Morir, el acto de morir no tiene en sí mismo ninguna grandeza, nada de misterioso o terrible. Es la muerte, el estar muerto, lo que aún me parece incalculable.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Life is an incurable disease.

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.