Quotes About Mortality

a man life is from womb to tomb,so be good and good to people and be be happy untill you live on earth

Zindagi badi honi chaiye, lambi nahin. That's the lesson Anand,

In death, Anand teaches us how to live.

One asks him what his ambition is. He replies, "To become immortal and then to die.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.

From Zeus let us begin, whom we mortals never leave unnamed: full of Zeus are all streets and all gathering places of men, and full are the sea and harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring.

We're ever making plans for life, But seldom plans for death, Though death we know must come to us, And life is but a breath.

Most people give little enough real thought to their own mortality. Oh yes, they gabble on about heaven and the bosom of Abraham, but really, they are weary of life almost from the time they're born, and are only waiting for it all to end. They live their days quietly, obscurely, and underneath their daily toils, they long for oblivion.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those who did not

To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.

we can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.

We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.

Porque tudo que é vivo morre.

É verdade, o cachorro morreu. Cumpriu sua sentença e encontrou-se com o único mal irremediável, aquilo que é a marca do nosso estranho destino sobre a Terra, aquele fato sem explicação que iguala tudo o que é vivo num só rebanho de condenados, porque tudo que é vivo morre.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in our wake, and at the same time, are drawn to things that kill: whiskey and cigarette, unprotected sex and deep fried burritos. It's true that you can get away with drinking and smoking and sunbathing when you're in your teens and twenties, and it's true that rock stars are free to die at twenty-nine, but a lit star needs a long life.

Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive.

I have accomplished so much in my life, but I can take nothing with me when I go. Nothing except what's in here." He moved his hand between them and pressed it against his heart. "You're in here. You've always been and you'll always be. You are what I will take back.

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

Mankind, fleet of life, like tree leaves, weak creatures of clay, unsubstantial as shadows, wingless, ephemeral, wretched, mortal and dreamlike.

Who knows whether living is dying, and breathingIs eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?