Quotes About Mortality

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Andy had been a good friend, and a good human being. Someone who was loyal, and upbeat, and funny. You think if you're not in touch with someone, everything is probably okay with them. Life just ticks along. They do the same things as you. They grow up. They meet a girl. Maybe they get married. They progress in their work. Perhaps they get into IT, or move abroad, or have a kid. Maybe they get rich, maybe they stay poor. But you never, ever think, that maybe they're dead.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know And still stand silent:--is it all a show,-- A wisp that laughs upon the wall?

And love leads to the grave.

A day here lasts a lifetime. You're born at dawn. You grow up at noon. You die at twilight. Tomorrow you change bodies.

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.

Then there were other reasons for living too, ones that mortals rarely thought of but that raged like fires in Rachel's mind: To correct mistakes. To avoid regret. To accept regret. To change. But none of these seemed possible either.

No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.

CARPE DIEM, ORAZIO I, 11 Leuconoe, quando io e te si muoia non chiederlo agli Dei.

Takav ni je teret u tom trenutku legao na dušu da sam mislio da ?u umrijeti. Ali, svemir nije tako milosrdan: pustit ?e te da umreš zbog zatrovanog zuba, udarca u glavu, zbog tu?e pogreške ili gluposti, ali te ne?e pustiti da umreš kad to poželiš, jer kad bi to dopuštao, živog bi?a u njemu više ne bi bilo.

Take care of your dog because a dead dog is NOT a fun companion!

Jesus argues that what should be contemplated is not the cutting short of these particular lives, but the fact that life terminates.

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt

Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

The highest demonstration of courage, Grand Master had once remarked, must be to die of fright.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Wondering if we had spent our living days well I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we might have been

Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.

Joe's Mortuary, you stab 'em, we slab 'em.

my grandfather is right, then death is only going to be a doorway from this world into Heaven. And if he's wrong, then it's simply going to be the end of my consciousness. I won't feel anything, I won't know that I'm dead, I will just come to an end.