Quotes About Mortality

Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. In contrast, only 4 percent of the POWs held by the Germans and Italians died.

Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured. "Wonder what?" "If being alive matters. If being dead might be a lot easier.

Algunas veces me pregunto... -murmuró Thomas. -¿Te preguntas, qué? -Si importa estar vivo. Si no sería mucho más facil estar muerto.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

We have all been in roomsWe cannot die in.

While man exists in this mortal state he needs some of the things of the world; he must have food and clothing and provision for shelter; and beside these bare necessities he may righteously desire the facilities of education, the incidentals of advancing civilization, and the things that are conducive to refinement and culture; yet all of these are but aids to achievement, not the end to attain which man was made mortal.

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history, more people than all the murderers in history, more than all the suicides in history, not only does structural violence kill more people than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence

Anno domini—that's the most fatal complaint of all in the end.

Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

No eres mas que una chispa en el momento del tiempo situado entre dos eternidades, el pasado y el futuro

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box'.

It is better to live than lie dead. A dead man gathers no goods. Hávamál

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.

I'm too young to die." "Yeah, and I'm too well known." -Droma and Han Solo

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

avoid dying a moment before we have to. Given that we expend so much effort staying alive, it might seem strange to think that anyone

Horses don't live thirty years,

I was so sorry, deep in my heart I was sorry, but all your "sorrys" are gone when a person dies. She was gone. Gone. That's why you have to say all your "sorrys" and "I love yous" while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised.