Quotes About Mortality

É belo morrer antes de se fazer algo digno da morte. - Anaxândrias

But we must not follow those who advise us…being mortal, [to think] of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.

Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.

Things speed up as you circle the drain. Armistead Maupin on ageing

Yet a little while, she thought, and I shall be lying on a bed like that! And what shall I have lived for? What is the meaning of it? The riddle of life itself was killing her, and she seemed to drown in a sea of inexpressible sorrow.

Vind je me niet mooi?' 'Heel mooi. Mooi zoals mensen mooi zijn die niet lang meer te leven hebben.

Van hoeveel kun je afscheid nemen voor leven ophoudt leven te zijn?

Dying is easy; parking is impossible.

I consider dying a very important part of life. I feel good in the sense that since these people are in pain, and most of them don't have very long to live, I can make their journey easier.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Nothing in this scene will be changed by my death, Nicole thought. There will just be one less pair of eyes to observe its splendor. And one less collection of chemicals risen to consciousness to wonder what it all means.

This would involve disconnection—the computer equivalent of death. Despite

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

We are survivors. The only survivors. And survivors always feel guilty at being alive.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.

He felt that strange mingling of kinship and discomfort that all men experience when they gaze thus into the mirror of time.

Whatever godlike powers and principalaties lurked beyond the stars, Poole reminded himself, for ordinary humans only two things were important: Love and Death.

Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.

Any game plan? (Xypher) Don't die. (Sin) I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher)

Our children grow old and elbow us into the grave.

And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? … First him, and then his memory. …

And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? ... First him, and then his memory. . . .