Quotes About Mortality

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

when you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality.

If death is we are not, if we are death is not.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

For if death is we are not,if we are death is not

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not care.

When we exist, death is not present, and when death is present, we do not exist

se aquilo que desaparece fosse destruído naquilo que não existe, todas as coisas teriam perecido, já que aquilo em que foram dissolvidas não existiria mais.

A morte não é nada para nós, porque o corpo, quando está dissolvido nos seus elementos, não tem sentimento, e o que não tem sentimento não é nada para nós.

N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

La morte, il più terribile dei mali, non è niente. Quando ci siamo noi la morte non c'è, e quando c'è lei noi non siamo più.

It's a great thing learning how to die.

In fact, according to one recent study, poor diet and physical inactivity may soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of death in America.21

For example, one study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that those who are 30 pounds overweight lose between one and six years of life, while those who are about 100 pounds overweight"' lose up to 13 years of life.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

In spaces too small for light to crawl I'll hide everything I own. I'll keep you there for safety. I'll build a shelter for your fears. I'll be your own suicide bomber, a satellite in the dwindling orbits, a mortal Om.

It offended him and mocked him: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did.

All the words that have passed between you and me to this point are nothing. The empty exhalations of the grave. The muttering of the wind through two exhumed skulls.