Quotes About Mortality

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one ise going to live forever and ever and ever

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.

The eyes of someone you kill are immortal, if they face you at the fatal instant. They have a terrible black color. They shake you more than the streams of blood and the death rattles, even in a great turmoil of dying. The eyes of the killed, for the killer, are his calamity if he looks into them. They are the blame of the person he kills.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

Only fools and the dead are content.

Those distractions combine with a desire to avoid considering our own mortality, so that days, weeks, months, or even years can easily pass where no serious consideration is given to the eternal questions of human existence.

Why isn't he dead?' he said eventually. 'That is a good question. After all, meaning well hasn't been a completely adequate shield in this century of ours.

Yet, if the world were bettered by My death or story left untold, I would condemn myself to die For misdemeanours manifold: I bring no harm to young or old Alive or dead, in either case: A man so needy never rolled A mountain from its resting place.

For all our claims and gestures of dominion over this earth, all our gravity-defying explorations beyond it, all our artistic triumphs, all our athletic feats, we are a breakable species

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Deathbed speeches in novels. The soprano bares her soul and collapses on the divan. Citizen Kane and his Rosebud. That's what we want, I guess. Some message, some meaning expressed in the last moments. What better time for it all to make sense than at the end? But it doesn't make sense." He opened his eyes. "The last moments are the same as any other moments. There is no special wisdom.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.

Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

This is what it means to be human. Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.