Quotes About Mortality

She lived among us for a while And brought joy where she went. We thought she was a gift of God But learned she was but lent.

Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.

CONSUME OBEY BE SILENT DIE

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

You'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.

Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

The smell of it. The feel of it." He rubbed one hand up and down the stained sheath of his sword, making a faint swishing sound. "War is honest. There's no lying to it. You don't have to say sorry here. Don't have to hide. You cannot. If you die? So what? You die among friends. Among worthy foes. You die looking the Great Leveller in the eye. If you live? Well, lad that's living, isn't it? A man isn't truly alive until he's facing death." Whirrun stamped his foot into the sod. "I love war!

A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b

Of all things, men most love to watch ohers face Death. It reminds them they yet live.

Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen. 'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.

A man is lent, not given, life.

It's time you realized that uncertainty is the perpetual lot of mortal creatures, and resigned yourself to being no better than the rest of us. We've no choice but to trust what we don't understand, accept what we can't believe and walk where there's no path we can see.

Heroin offers safety, and the illusion of immortality, but it robs you of the possibilities that make holding onto life worthwhile in the first place. And since death will take us all, addicts and never-addicts and former addicts and future addicts, writing about heroin suggests that while we are here, we ought to live, which means, alas, that we allow ourselves to age and to die.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" —PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" Pema Chodron

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

In death there is nothing new, or surprising, since we all know, that we are born to die; and nothing terrible to those, who can confide in an all-powerful God.

Autumn, whispering through the maples, Pleaded: 'Die here with me!

Don't kiss me, I am weary - Death will kiss me.

You're the sinner, seeing the heavenly, Sweetest dream, before passing away…

Lots of people haven't done anything,' said longest friend. 'And still they're not doing it, will always be not doing it, in their private coffins down at the usual place.