Quotes About Mortality

Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.

Everything ends In Mexico Mexico, An excellent place to die. Come some day and try Mexico.

One can die but once. Dim died before he was born.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Se ha llegado a decir que «matar el tiempo no es asesinato, sino suicidio».

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. —MARK TWAIN

A man shall be possessed of florid, youthful blooming health till, it matters not what age — thirty; forty; fifty — then comes some nipping frost, some period of agony, that robs the fibres of the body of their succulence, and the hale and hearty man is counted among the old.

His grandfather, who was eighty years of age, would not die, — appeared to have no symptoms of dying; — whereas this Marquis, who was not yet much over fifty, was rushing headlong out of the world, simply because he was the one man whose continued life at the present moment would be serviceable to George Vavasor. As he thought of his grandfather he almost broke his umbrella by the vehemence with which he struck it against the pavement.

There are hearts and bodies so organized, that in them severe wounds are incurable, whereas in others no injury seems to be fatal.

Research among aristocratic women has produced the statistics that 45% died before the age of fifty,one quarter from the complications of childbirth; these figures do not however allow the debilitations caused by consent parturition.Many women must have died of diseases and conditions related to the pain and the perel,worn through by ceaseless child-bearing,who didn't actually die in labour.

Not only are mortals rotten, the very atmosphere in which we live is materially and physically rotten, swarming with maggots, with obscene appearances, poisonous minds, and foul organisms.

A thing named is a dead thing, and it's dead because it is set apart…

Là ou ça sent la merde ça sent l'être. L'homme aurait très bien pu ne pas chier, ne pas ouvrir la poche anale, mais il a choisi de chier comme il aurait choisi de vivre au lieu de consentir à vivre mort. C'est que pour ne pas faire caca, il lui aurait fallu consentir à ne pas être, mais il n'a pas pu se résoudre à perdre l'être, c'est-à-dire à mourir vivant.

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

Como si fuera más digno morirse de leucemia que de SIDA. Como si fuera indigno ser sidoso. Como si en la muerte hubiera alguna dignidad

It is only when one faces death, observed one of the men there, that one realises the great value of life.

Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny flicker of peace.

She told me, Everybody doesn't get everything. It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.

But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny flicker of peace.

Numai moartea nu cere daruri dintre zei.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon

No debemos, a pesar de no ser más que hombres, limitarnos, como quieren algunos, a los conocimientos y sentimientos puramente humanos: ni reducirnos, mortales como somos, a una condición mortal; es preciso, por lo contrario, que en cuanto de nosotros dependa nos desatemos de los lazos de la condición mortal, y hagamos lo posible por vivir conforme a lo mejor que hay en nosotros.