Quotes About Mortality

Da Vinci había seguido fielmente su guía hasta el final y, habiendo completado su curso, era hora de morir. Quizá en ese momento regresaron a él estas palabras, escritas años atrás en su libreta: "Así como un día rebosante trae consigo dulces sueños, una vida bien empleada procura una muerte dulce".

Así como un día rebosante trae consigo dulces sueños, una vida bien empleada procura una muerte dulce".

Let us rid death of its strangeness, come to know it, get used to it. Let us have nothing on our minds as often as death. At every moment let us picture it in our imagination in all its aspects. . . . It is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere. Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom. . . . He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82

vita umbratilis

The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.

She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -

The integers of death.

Ars Longa Which is crueller Vita Brevis life or art?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Men, Thom murmured. Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations. He shook his head. It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

A man can get killed in there.

Life is a dream, and everyone wakes eventually.

Soon comes the day all shall be free. Even you, and even me. Soon comes the day all shall die. Surely you, but never I. Padan Fain

Death came for every man eventually, and seldom where or when he expected.

Matar era tan fácil como morir, decían los Aiel; cualquier necio podía hacer lo uno o lo otro.

Death was terrible. That didn't stop it from being necessary.

Hey, Mags. Um - how are you holding up? I don't think I'm going to love you anymore. What's the point? You are just going to die like everyone else...

Wie viele gute Jahre bleiben mir wohl noch? ----- Gute Jahre? Keine. Keiner hat mehr gute Jahre. Und falls du deine Lebenserwartung meinst... Wir sitzen alle im gleichen Boot.

To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of whether they'll swallow.

One day Nagle paid him the highest compliment by saying, "When you die no one will ever find your body.

If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.