Quotes About Mortality

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

She looked at Paul's face, his eyes--the inward stare. And she knew where she had seen such a look before: pictured in records of disasters--on the faces of children who experienced starvation or terrible injury. The eyes were like pits, mouth a straight line, cheeks indrawn. It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what? An old woman's greed.

When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself," Chani said.

Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.

The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity. It's in the bloodstream—the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.

It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

Why deify a man known to be flesh?

Death is a very personal thing. I will seldom interfere with it.

Carnea cedeaz?, gândi el. Eternitatea îÈ™i ia înapoi ceea ce-i aparÈ›ine. Trupurile noastre au agitat, o vreme, apele. O vreme, am fost intoxicaÈ›i de dragoste de via??, de dragoste de sine, o vreme am nutrit câteva idei stranii, înainte de a ne supune instrumentelor Timpului.

Ele fala da morte porque isso é necessário. É a tensão por meio da qual os vivos sabem que estão vivos.

A b?nui c? eÈ™ti muritor înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te începutul groazei. A afla cu certitudine c? eÈ™ti muritor, înseamn? a cunoaÈ™te sfârÈ™itul groazei.

Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless muttering of old women. He remembered open waters and waves - days of grass instead of sand - dazed summers that had whipped past him like windstorms leaves. [...] I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what ? An old woman's greed.

Avere i primi, vaghi sospetti della propria mortalità, significa conoscere l'inizio del terrore; esser coscienti, oltre ogni dubbio, che si è mortali, significa aver conosciuto la fine del terrore.

Kendi ölümlülüÄŸünden ÅŸüphelenmek, dehÅŸetin baÅŸlang?c?n? bilmektir; ölümlü olduÄŸunu reddedilemez bir ÅŸekilde öÄŸrenmek, dehÅŸetin sonunu bilmektir.

The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.

Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself

He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace - no remains, nothing, and an entire planet for a tomb.

The meaning of life is that it ends.

Les diría que escribieran una nota de despedida de ciento cincuenta palabras, como si fueran a suicidarse. Sería un buen modo de animarles a pensar en la vida en sí, pues Samuel Johnson dijo que pensar que nos van a ahorcar a la mañana siguiente centra la mente de una manera maravillosa.

An old man dies, a young woman lives. Fair trade.

I want to live as long as I can, and die when I can't help it.