Quotes About Mortality

That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty.

Sleep is a little slice of death.

And do I ask, wherefore my heart Falters, oppressed with unknown needs? Why some inexplicable smart All movement of my life impedes? Alas! in living Nature's stead, Where God His human creature set, In smoke and mould the fleshless dead And bones of beasts surround me yet!

I see no end to my misery but the grave.

THALES. Maybe so. Still, I'll defend a life Lived worthily in its brief time on earth. PROTEUS. A life like yours, yes—it persists Well past the bounds of mortal days. Among the crowd of pale and drifting ghosts 8620 I've noticed you these many centuries.

A useless life is an early death.

Suelo decirme a mí mismo: Tu destino no tiene igual: comparados contigo, los demás hombres son felices; porque jamás mortal alguno se vio atormentado como tú. Entonces leo a cualquier poeta antiguo y me parece que es el libro mi propio corazón. ¡Qué! ¿Aún me queda tanto que sufrir? ¿Y antes que yo ha habido hombres tan desgraciados?

When your thirtieth year is over, A man's as good as dead.

Oh God, art is forever, And our life is brief.

Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.

MEPHISTO Lusts cannot fill him nor happiness content, He whores after changing shapes and cannot rest, And the last miserable empty moment 11590 The poor wretch seeks to hold it fast. He held out hard against me but Time commands: Now the old man lies here in Time's sands. The clock stands still –

Oh, God! Art is long And life is short.

presence on earth, left in the minds and souls of those who loved them, but those don't last long.

eu acho tão espantoso que se chame de covarde ou de desgraçado àquele que se priva da vida, como acharia impertinente chamar de covarde ao que sucumbe a uma febre maligna.

El hombre desea mucho y necesita poco, vista la brevedad de su vida.

Ach Gott! die Kunst ist lang; und kurz ist unser Leben.

And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.

One who has passed the thirtieth year already is as good as dead-- it would be best to kill you off by then.

When God created us, he founded His living nature for our home; But you sit in this gloom, surrounded By mildred skull and arid bone.

Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.

Oh, man is so transient that even where he is really certain of his existence, even where he makes the one true impression of his presence, in the memory, in the soul of his dear ones, even there must he disappear, be extinguished, and that so soon!