Quotes About Mortality

Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, 'family!' Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder..." "Well," William said brightly, "and sex.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on.

The years between 20 and 30 are full of all sorts of dangers, full of great danger, yea, the danger of sin and death. —Vincent to Theo, early September

I am upset today, Lapinski, because my friend is dying... I spread my loneliness out like a fan in front of you. He is my comrade, Lapinski. Holding on to the hands of the clock with his fingertips. For me. We hang on for each other.

You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value.

You should not give your whole heart to anything mortal, daughter.

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

Pân? când nu am în?eles c? ?i eu sunt muritor, nu am ?tiut ce este cu adev?rat etern

Coming that close to death you get kissed.

He never feared anything again. Because he knew the secret. Life was cheap.

someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart, reaching up for the connection to whoever might be in the room or leaning into our mattress as we draw our last breath. I hate to put it in such dramatic terms, but it's kinda true.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

even saints die," I said quietly, "and they don't all pass away kneeling in prayer.

Every physician in practice has experienced the phenomenon of patients who die from their diagnosis.

A cierta edad- afirmó Lewis Thomas cierta vez -,está en nuestra naturaleza desgastarnos, caer en trastornos y morir y eso es todo.

But what gives human love its special poignancy, and gives human justice its special dignity, is the limit to life.

Death swallows death.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

World War II left no life untouched. An estimated 16 million American men had gone off to fight. More than 400,000 lost their lives. Military and civilian deaths worldwide were estimated to be as high as 80 million.

To speak somewhat frankly, every boy I've known as well as killed has struck me as his corpse's baby picture.

Human bodies are such garbage bags.