Quotes About Mortality

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. —John F. Kennedy

Where is the fault? Is it believing that the people you love are immortal? Untouchable? No, everyone believes that. Only no one know it's what they believe- until it happens. Then comes the rage, the banging about the walls, crying what if, what if. Everyone is always so damned surprised, that is the horror of it.

The greatest challenge of life is to not die before we die

You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.

Odds were in favor of you dying, either by running into Tyet operations, by starvation or thirst, or by Mother Nature giving you a stone spanking.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

I once heard someone say, "I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

possible. He has this attitude that nothing bad can happen to him, that he is protected in some way. I never have that feeling. Instead, I am certain my death is waiting for me around the next bend in the road.

If WHO statistics were to be believed, the U.S. had the worst maternal mortality in the industrialized world.

Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.

moribund patients, conducting autopsies on them all and EEGs on some.

Quand je mourrai, je regretterai surtout de savoir que périssent les yeux qui l'ont vue et le cÅ"ur qui l'a contemplée.

Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only recourse is spiritual practice, and our only friends the virtuous actions we have accomplished during our lifetime.

What a waste of time it is to take so much care of this body, feeding it the most succulent dishes, dressing it in the most fashionable clothes, and trying to make it look younger than it really is. The body has no other destination than the cemetery where it will be burned, buried, or fed to the birds.

Just as worn-out clothes can never again be made as new, It's no use seeing a doctor once you're terminally ill; You'll have to go. We humans living on this earth Are like streams and rivers flowing toward the ocean - All living beings are heading for that single destination. Now, like a small bird flying off from a treetop, I, too, will not be here much longer; soon I must move on. – Padampa Sangye

The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death.       The

Quella mattina si affacciò dirigendo gli sguardi al triangolo visibile di deserto e credette di essere morto. Non pensò che potesse essere un sogno. Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai dalla vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.

Entretanto o tempo voava; sem reparar nos homens, passava aqui e ali pelo mundo, mortificando as coisas bonitas; e ninguém conseguia escapar-lhe, nem mesmo as crianças recém-nascidas, ainda desprovidas de nome.

The intelligent man should see to it that his friends are immortal, his enemies mortal.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Life, the permission to know death.

Any man can look upon the head in death, but no man can look upon the feet.