Quotes About Mortality

From the hour you're born you begin to die. But between birth and death there's life.

Pour moi, ma mère avait toujours existé et je n'avais jamais sérieusement pensé que je la verrais disparaître un jour, bientôt. Sa fin se situait, comme sa naissance, dans un temps mystique. Quand je me disais : elle a l'âge de mourir, c'étaient des mots vides, comme tant de mots. Pour la première fois, j'apercevais en elle un cadavre en sursis.

A gyilkosság bosszú azért, hogy halandók vagyunk.

No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt.

Il y a dans l'âme comme une phagocytose ; tout ce qui est menacé par le temps secrète du mensonge pour ne pas mourir, et à proportion du danger de mort. C'est pourquoi il n'y a pas d'amour de la vérité sans un consentement sans réserve à la mort.

If we are to perish in the battles of the future, let us do our best to prepare ourselves to perish with a clear vision of the world we shall be leaving behind.

we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things which ought to be of assistance to us in our pilgrimage through life, become chains which bind us.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.

The step between time and eternity is short but terrible, and I have few moments to prepare for it.

Non dire felice uomo mortale, prima che abbia varcato il termine della vita senza aver patito dolore

There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.

count no man happy until he be dead.

No mortal is happy, and all men on earth who look upon the sun are wretched.

I figure when I die, I can't take anything with me. So why not give?

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Only a fool could be in love with death.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.