Quotes About Mortality

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! Does that sound right? That means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.

The phenomenon of risk-aversion means that some patients whose lives might be saved by a risky operation are simply never operated upon. But there is also the reverse problem, that of overly aggressive care to meet metric targets. Patients whose operations are not successful may be kept alive for the requisite thirty days to improve their hospital's mortality data, a prolongation that is both costly and inhumane.

Para vivir hay que aprender a mirar la muerte con cierta indiferencia. No hay que dedicar a los muertos demasiados sentimientos ni pensar en ellos en exceso. No lo necesitan. No necesitan nada. No existen. Sólo los vivos existen.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

We deceive ourselves into thinking life is long, but fire reminds us—it is a flickering. Life is a flickering—and then it is gone. So, we must make the most of it.

The trouble is, as you get older, the people you like die and are not replaced with others, so that it is easily possible to end up with no one at all to talk to, or at least, no one you would want to hear responding to whatever it is you might have ended up saying.

That's the trouble with the hospital-they find all the things that have been killing you forever, and that you are okay with, you're okay with those things slowly killing you, but then they find them and get rid of them, and then other things replace the things you were fine with, and you are not fine, not fine at all with the new things, and so you die, slowly, in utter misery, just the way you would have before, only before you were pretty okay with the manner of it, but now you're not.

I was wrong. In fact, the opposite is true. Everyday life is the province of death. It is where all dying takes place--for the extraordinary lands we imagine simply do not exist. There is only the ordinary. It is what we inhabit, and when death comes to find us it is there that he looks.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

There exists no more difficult art than living. For other arts and sciences, numerous teachers are to be found everywhere. Even young people believe that they have acquired these in such a way, that they can teach them to others: throughout the whole of life, one must continue to learn to live and, what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die. SENECA

Cuanto más nos liberemos del afán de poseer en todas sus formas, en especial de nuestro egocentrismo, menos poderoso será el miedo a la muerte, ya que no tendremos nada que perder.

At?l, hareketsiz duran yaÅŸam ölmeye eÄŸilimlidir; eÄŸer at?ll?k eksiksizse, ölüm gerçekleÅŸmiÅŸ demektir.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlunun bilinçlilik için ödediÄŸi bedel, güvensizliktir. Bu güvensizliÄŸi kald?rabilmek için, insansal koÅŸulun fark?nda olmak ve onu kabullenmek, baÅŸar?ya ulaÅŸaca?? garantisinden yoksun olmas?na kar??n, baÅŸar?s?zl??a ulaÅŸmayaca??n? ummak durumundad?r. Kesinlikten yoksundur, emin deÄŸildir; bir tek kesin öngörüde bulunabilir: ÖleceÄŸim.

Wie gesagt, das Leben muss noch vor dem Tode erledigt werden.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what can possibly become of us?

Beyond this our life did not extend. And of this nothing remains.

Kui oled surnud, oled kole tähtis – kui elad, ei hooli sust keegi.