Quotes About Mortality

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I if

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed.

These men were born to drill and die.             Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,             Make plain to them the excellence of killing             And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

A dead soldier was stretched with his face hidden in his arm. Farther off there was a group of four or five corpses keeping mournful company. A hot sun had blazed upon the spot. In this place the youth felt that he was an invader. This forgotten part of the battleground was owned by the dead men, and he hurried, in the vague apprehension that one of the swollen forms would rise and tell him to begone.

Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. And you so intelligent! Excuse me? said tom Knowing those things are going to kill you she said and still you do it. How differently I might behave Tom said, if immortality were an option

I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Few heroes die peacefully in their beds after long lives filled with happiness.

Knowing those things are going to kill you, she said, and still you do it. How differently I might behave, Tom said, if immortality were an option.

The moment when flowers and fruits are at their fullest and ripest is the moment that precedes their fall, their decay, their rot, their death.

Thanatos, the grim, forbidding figure of Death.

Even as he breathed his last breath he killed more Trojans. Terrified by the sight of a mortally wounded man with such implacable strength and will, most held back, unsure that such a man could really die.

Know this: we are a long time dead. Life may be short, but it is sweet."53

How strange is our mortal zest for fame. Perhaps it is the only way humans can be gods. We achieve immortality not through ambrosia and ichor but through history and reputation.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

I think that when we die we return to dust. But there's a sense in which we live on, in our influence, and in our genes that we pass on to our children. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.

Cuando te enfrentas a la posibilidad de una muerte temprana, te das cuenta de que hay muchas cosas que quieres hacer antes de que tu vida termine.

Kebenaran abadi, juga kenyamanan yang ditemukan dalam gagasan bahwa walau manusia menua dan mati, alam semesta kekal dan tak berubah.