Quotes About Mortality

Ik heb mijn strikt persoonlijke tijdrekening, onmogelijk in overeenstemming te brengen met die welke gebaseerd is op de stichting van Rome of het tijdperk van de Olympiaden. Vijftien jaren in het leger hebben korter geduurd dan een ochtend in Athene; er zijn mensen met wie ik mijn leven lang ben omgegaan en die ik in de Onderwereld niet zou herkennen.

De nog in de duistere schoot van de tijd liggende eeuwen zouden bij duizendtallen over dat graf heen gaan zonder hem het bestaan terug te geven, maar ook zonder iets aan zijn dood toe te voegen, zonder te beletten dat hij had geleefd.

Todavía un instante miremos juntos las riberas familiares, los objetos que sin duda no volveremos a ver… Tratemos de entrar en la muerte con los ojos abiertos…

A young, handsome emperor in one period, and an old sickly one in his final days

One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter.

To love is to accept that one might die another death before one dies one's own.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Tenemos miedo de morirnos jóvenes y también de envejecer. Tenemos más miedo de la vida que de la muerte.

Whole chapters of contemporary history are disappearing into the ether as e-mails get trashed and webpages are taken down and people die without sharing their passwords.

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.

Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes.

And now they say my heart is failing. The doctor used the term angina pectoris, which has a theological sound, like misericordia.

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

Oh, I am a limited man, and old, and he will still be his inexplicable mortal self when I am dust.

I do hope to die with a quiet heart . I know that may not be realistic.

Comparisons with the past are of limited help: The ending of hanging won't make suicides in youth remand centres go away; the mortality, famine, rickets, scabies of Victorian slum children don't turn free school milk into a excessive luxury.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.

The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then.

Yet he thought, if I die saying Life is beautiful, then nothing else is important.

You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles.

Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish.

With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. ... He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important. If I can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.