Quotes About Mortality

even death has a heart

are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely

It kills me sometimes, how people die... -Told from the perspective of Death

I kills me sometimes, the way people die. -Death

Un pequeño detalle Morirás.

A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR. I am haunted by humans.

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.

Tomorrow is never guaranteed to anyone,young or old. Today could be the last time to see your loved ones, which is why you mustn't wait; do it today, in case tomorrow never arrives. I am sure you will be sorry you wasted the opportunity today to give a smile, a hug, a kiss, and that you were too busy to grant them their last wish.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Blood and bodies and death and power.

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. You got that? And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look, and feel, like shit.

Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a full-time job looking the other way.

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.

Whatever junk novels were, however they worked, they were close to therapy, and airports were close to therapy. They both belonged to the culture of the waiting room. Piped music, the language of calming suasion. Come this way--yes, the flight attendant will see you now. Airports, junk novels: they were taking your mind off mortal fear.

The father is dying, as did his (and as did his).

So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old Ted in a black suit and the secular obsequies.

Death is an artist, not an intellectual.

Pero una vez que la vida ha echado a rodar, no puedes ponerle fin. No tienes la libertad de hacerlo. Hay que aguantar hasta el final. La vida se acabará. Sé exactamente cuánta me queda. Es como si fuera a durar eternamente. Me siento único, eterno. La inmortalidad que me consume es sólo mía.

La verdad es que un minero que no piensa que está trabajando en su propia sepultura es un tonto.

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.

I dwell, you dwell. The way in which you are and I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is Buan, dwelling. To be a human being means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell.

Für die Götter kommen wir zu spät und zu früh für das Seyn.