Quotes About Mortality

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

No se tome la vida demasiado en serio; nunca saldrá usted vivo de ella

Now and then, I am surprised to read of the death of someone I have known, because I thought he or she had died long ago. Actually, he had only stopped growing.

How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us

de pequeña sabía que nos moríamos, siempre lo he sabido, pero nunca pensé que fuera a pasarme a mí, y ahora tampoco termino de creérmelo.

e io, malgrado tutti i miei cambiamenti, seguitavo a esserle subalterna. Di quella subalternità sentii che non sarei mai riuscita a liberarmi e questo mi sembrò insopportabile. Desiderai – e non riuscii a tenere a bada il desiderio – che il cardiologo si fosse sbagliato, che Armando avesse ragione, che lei fosse davvero malata e morisse.

Tiene miedo, dijo, siempre fue así; tiene miedo de las enfermedades y la muerte. Giannì, todas las personas soberbias, todas las que se lo tienen muy creído hacen como si la muerte no existiera.

I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.

Quanto pesa un corpo che è stato attraversato dalla morte, la vita è leggera, non bisogna permettere a nessuno di rendercela greve

É tão fácil — pensei — morrer precisamente na vida das pessoas sem as quais não podemos viver?

A lifetime is not so many years for a person to play with.

In waking life (just now), if I read his face like a card there is a reversal of fortunes, for I am the body he did not help, and when a body dies we can no longer study the hynger paths so that when I speak of him, instead of saying "father", I must say "your father" or "this man I knew" or "this dead man's eyebrow." What is a dead man? What does a dead man?

In waking life (just now), if I read his face like a card there is a reversal of fortunes, for I am the body he did not help, and when a body dies we can no longer study the hunger paths so that when I speak of him, instead of saying "father," I must say "your father" or "this man I knew" or "this dead man's eyebrow." What is a dead man? What does a dead man?

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Have you heard that terrifying expression "to kill time"? It's time that kills us, but we pretend it's the other way around!

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

What a beautiful girl you are," he said, with a kind of ache or awe in his voice, that made me think about how someday I would be old or dead or both, and the transience of all things, of the car, the moonlight, the volcanic rock that was eroding and the stars that were shooting by, made the world seem at once more important and less important, until finally the concept of "important" itself faded away like an expiring firework that glittered against the sky.

But to me it seemed that one had always been midway the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death.

I had often flipped through a calendar wondering on which of the 366 days (counting February 29) I would die, but it had never once occurred to me to wonder whether I had already met the first person I would have sex with.

We lived together for a long time,' he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, 'we have no need to fight.' I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.