Quotes About Mortality

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

todos morimos, envejecemos y enfermamos. La existencia o la vida, como veremos más adelante, es impermanente, y por lo tanto nuestras fuentes de apego se agotarán, nos guste o no. Si aceptaras esta premisa con todo tu ser no tendrías apegos.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Death stands above me, Whispering low I know not what into my ear.

Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

I'll never marry and I'll die before I'm forty

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

It's been so long since I heard that someone died of natural causes.

No creo que haya ninguna muerte indolora, aunque solo dure un segundo. Aunque nos corten la cabeza o nos disparen en el corazón. La vida es demasiado fuerte para desaparecer sin algún tipo de sufrimiento.

happiness is a state of mind. The glass is half empty. The glass is half full. It's pouring rain. The flowers will grow. I am going to die one day. I am alive on this day.

Death carries no luggage."

We must love one another and die

Our whole religious journey is, at its core, an effort to ensure that the death of the body does not mean annihilation.

This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.

I burst out crying because I realized something right then and there: death was going to take her someday. Because she'd grow old and wrinkly, you see, and fill up with pain until it extinguished her, and it just ... seemed intolerable. Shouldn't it? I mean, even a diamond is forever, and a diamond can't grip your finger.

With either soul or body lost, all perisheth.

suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.