Quotes About Mortality

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

Our bodies were trash. We leave them on the shore.

He said loudly 'I am not dying' and I said 'for me you are.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.

Here on earth, discover what you are, what your existence is, and how swiftly flees your span of life from time to eternity. For after you are gone, your deeds will speak louder than when you lived.

Life is an illusion that last too little.

Ja, liebe Klara: Es ist sehr, sehr gefährlich, auch nur einen Tag zu leben.

eight times more people die on Everest on the way down than on the way up.

Quando di notte alzavamo la testa verso la luna, percepivamo in noi la vastità del mondo, la sentivamo brillare immobile sopra il brulichio ininterrotto di miliardi di individui. La coscienza si dilatava nello spazio totale del pianeta, verso altre galassie. L'infinito smetteva di essere immaginario. Ecco perché era inconcepibile dirsi che un giorno saremmo morti.

Marie-Claude m'a appelée. Jean-Yves est mort vendredi dernier. Il m'arrive de penser que nous sommes mystérieusement liés aux êtres et que leur disparition produit des « ondes ». Vendredi, ce jour où j'ai été si mal, où tout a paru me manquer, a été le jour de la mort de J.-Yves. Je ne l'ai jamais revu depuis juillet 63. Il m'avait confié : « Je n'ai pas d'ami. »

Après le rasage, mon oncle a tiré le corps, l'a tenu levé pour qu'on lui enlève la chemise qu'il portait ces derniers jours et la remplacer par une propre. La tête retombait en avant, sur la poitrine nue couverte de marbrures. Pour la première fois de ma vie, j'ai vu le sexe de mon père. Ma mère l'a dissimulé rapidement avec les pans de la chemise propre, en riant un peu : « Cache ta misère, mon pauvre homme.

Tutto si cancellerà in un secondo. Il dizionario costruito termine dopo termine dalla culla all'ultimo giaciglio si estinguerà. Sarà il silenzio, e nessuna parola per dirlo. Dalla bocca aperta non uscirà nulla. Né io né me. La lingua continuerà a mettere il mondo in parole. Nelle conversazioni attorno a una tavolata in festa saremo soltanto un nome, sempre più senza volto, finché scompariremo nella massa anonima di una generazione lontana.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death

I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.