Quotes About Mortality

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die. This will inspire you not to waste precious time in fruitless activities, like stewing over grievances and striving after possessions.

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.

Pidä silmiesi edessä joka päivä kuolema ja maanpako ja kaikki kauheana näyttäytyvä, ennen kaikkea kuolema. Silloin et koskaan ajattele mitään matalamielistä etkä himoitse mitään likaa.

No, I cannot escape death, [10] but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences — nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

In one major U.S. city, The New York Times reports, unclaimed bodies "are piling up faster than the city can handle them"; boxes containing the personal papers of the deceased are "piled floor to ceiling" in the county office.22 "We had never been so busy before," one Cook County investigator explained, "but nothing about the heat wave was really unusual except the amounts" (see fig

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

Is life much too long for an immortal?

I am unimaginably old—fifty. Only witches live to be fifty! Good women die in childbirth at seventeen as I nearly did. By fifty I should be dead or a crone—with my dark looks and my somewhat crooked spine—which I have always disguised with capes of multicolored silk. My youth is gone, but my vanity is not. How can I still dream of love at fifty? I must be mad!

There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves?

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate,Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i în privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

Dac? pronunÈ›i cuvântul MOARTE într-un spital, nimeni nu aude. E sigur c? se las? t?cerea È™i-apoi se schimb? subiectul.

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

OdkÄ…d Å›miertelnicy gromadzÄ… siÄ™ podczas tajemniczych nocy nieustannie, nieustannie rozprawiajÄ…. Nie znoszÄ… ignorancji, a wiÄ™c tworzÄ… wiedzÄ™. WymyÅ›lajÄ… mity, wymyÅ›lajÄ… bóstwa, wymyÅ›lajÄ… boga, wymyÅ›lajÄ… naukÄ™. Bogowie siÄ™ zmieniajÄ…, nastÄ™pujÄ… po sobie, umierajÄ…. Modele kosmologiczne podobnie. Pozostaje jedynie ambicja, ambicja, ?eby wyjaÅ›nia?.

J'ai l'impression, Mamie-Rose, qu'on a inventé un autre hôpital que celui qui existe vraiment. On fait comme si on ne venait à l'hôpital que pour guérir. Alors qu'on y vient aussi pour mourir. - Tu as raison, Oscar. Et je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile, friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Ich habe versucht, meinen Eltern zu erklären, was das Leben für ein komisches Geschenk ist. Am Anfang überschätzt man dieses Geschenk, man glaubt, man lebt ewig. Später unterschätzt man es, man findet es kümmerlich, zu kurz, am liebsten würde man es wegschmeißen. Am Ende wird einem klar, daß es gar kein Geschenk ist, sondern nur geliehen.

Dimentichiamo che la vita è fragile, friabile, effimera. Facciamo tutti finta di essere immortali.

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii nu vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate, Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i-n privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

A?a zicea Fontenelle: un trandafir n-a v?zut niciodat? un gr?dinar murind.