Quotes About Mortality

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.

Du jour où il nait, l'homme commence à mourir; c'est la vérité qu'incarne la Mère.

For twenty years it seemed to me that I had been taking part in a game, and that one day, at the stroke of midnight, I would return to the land of shadows. ...In a little while, the hands would be pointing to midnight; they would point to midnight tomorrow and the next day, and I would still be here.

For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Ich muß fühlen, daß ich lebe. Und wenn ich darüber sterbe.

YaÅŸamaya s?k? s?k? sar?lm??san?z sizce ister gökyüzünde ister yeryüzünde olsun, ölümsüzlük ölümün ac?s?n? size unutturamaz, sizi avutamaz.

Ze had een hekel aan die anonieme hotelkamers waar zoveel mensen waren geweest zonder sporen achter te laten, waar zij zelf ook geen enkel spoor zou achterlaten. Alles blijft precies hetzelfde als ik er niet meer ben. Dat is wat doodgaan is, dacht ze.

Today I believe that, under the specially privileged conditions in which I exist, life contains two main truths which we must face simultaneously, and between which there is no choice - the joy of being, the horror of being no more.

Time vanishes behind those who leave this world, and the older I get the more my past years draw together.

the absolute could be enclosed within the last moments of a dying person.

No existe muerte natural: nada de lo que sucede al hombre es natural puesto que su sola presencia cuestiona al mundo. Todos los hombres son mortales: pero para todos los hombres la muerte es un accidente y, aunque la concozca y la acepte, es una violencia indebida.

Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?

No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de algo».

Para mí, mi madre siempre había existido y nunca había pensado seriamente que la vería desaparecer un día cercano. Su fin se situaba, como su nacimiento, en un tiempo mítico. Cuando yo me decía: tiene edad de morir, eran palabras vacías, como tantas otras. Por primera vez percibía en mi madre un cadáver en cierne.

E pesando na terra todo o meu peso imóvel. Tu morres. Outros agonizam lentamente, corpos cheios de golpes, a pele colada aos ossos.

Cependant c'est là le premier mensonge, la première trahison de la femme: c'est celle de la vie même qui, fût-elle revêtue des formes les plus attrayantes, est toujours habitée par les ferments de la vieillesse et de la mort.

Distesa su un prato, contemplavo, proprio all'altezza del mio occhio, l'accavallarsi dei fili d'erba, tutti identici, ciascuno affondato nella minuscola giungla che gli nascondeva tutti gli altri. Questa ripetizione indefinita dell'ignoranza, dell'indifferenza, equivaleva alla morte. Levai gli occhi alla quercia; dominava il paesaggio e non aveva eguali. Io sarei stata come lei.