Quotes About Mortality

One more: This had to do with death. It had to do with a sense of leaving, he could feel himself almost leaving the world and he did not believe in any afterlife and so this filled him on certain nights with a kind of terror.

No one can ever know true Justice or Beauty in his mortal lifetime. He can, however, make the search for that higher knowledge his life's work, just as Socrates did.

But how do we do that? Especially since, as we have seen, the Forms do not exist in time and space, and none of us ever really knows them until we are dead.

The classic deductive inference (actually taken from Aristotle's Categories) is "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." Usually a good deductive inference goes from greater generalities to lesser ones:

We watch the boy grow into a young man and then grow old and die, but it is still the same man.

Wat is dat toch aan een mens dat het idee dat alles eindig is en uiteindelijk toch zal verzinken in anderhalve kuub aarde hem niet bij voorbaat moedeloos maakt een kort na zijn geboorte al bij de pakken neer doet zitten? ?Japin

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.

Debilidad o fuerza. No sabes a dónde vas ni por qué vas, entra en todas partes, responde a todo. Como si fueras un cadáver ya no te podrán matar.» A la mañana tenía una mirada tan extraviada y un aspecto tan muerto que aquellos que encontré quizá no me hayan visto.

Vei r?mâne o hien?",exclam? demonul care îmi încisese fruntea cu o cunun? de maci superbi."DobândeÅŸte-Å£i moartea,cu toate poftele tale,cu egoismul t?u ÅŸi cu toate p?catele tale grele!

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Life is a constant process of dying.

We poor mortals may speak often and yet fail to be heard. He speaks but once and the thunder of His power is heard on a thousand hills.

Døden er det aller viktigste her i livet, og heller ikke den er særlig viktig (Folkelig visdomsord)

Samobójcy doszli wspólnie do wniosku, ?e chocia? ?mier? jest w ?yciu najwa?niejsz? spraw?, to w ko?cu nie jest ona a? tak bardzo wa?na.

Poor little corpses! It was too bad they were dead. He couldn't play with them. Even though they really stank. He couldn't stand the smell. They deserved to die for smelling so bad.

nothing dies of old age. Everything dies of something.

Bien mirado, el mundo ha dejado de pensar en la muerte. Creer que no vamos a morir nos hace débiles, y peores.

En este oficio, pensó con una cínica mueca interior, el único día fácil es cuando estás muerto.

Omnes vulnerant, postuma necat. Todas hieren, leyó. La última mata.

Es posible que los hombres que fueron acariciados por muchas mujeres encaren sus horas finales con más decisión y con menos miedo»...

comprende?... Se va transformando, muere y vive mientras nace, hasta que el artista dice basta. Sólo entonces termina. Y muere de verdad.