Quotes About Mortality

But remember this: Men are made fools by the gleaming limbs of women, and lo, in a minute they are become discoloured cornelians. . . Her voice deepened as she quoted: "A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream, and death comes as the end. . . .

Death is for other people.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

Everyone must die! That is so, is it not? If it comes quickly from the sky—bouff—like that, it is as well as any other way. One is alive for a time—yes, and then one is dead. That is what happens in this world.

Although everyone knows death comes in the end, you have this stupid mind which keeps on saying, 'But I won't die today . . .' right up to the moment of death!

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

I recalled the leering drunken old man, and the toil-worn face of the dead woman—and I shivered a little at the remorselessness of time….

Yes, it's horrid having a death here. It makes everyone depressed. Of course—he was quite old." "He seemed quite well and cheerful yesterday," said Miss Marple, slightly resenting this calm assumption that everyone of advanced years was liable to die at any minute.

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

Every mortal luxury…

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

La vida se nos antoja más llena de interés cuando estamos a punto de perderla.

Biz ölümlüler ya?amla ölümü ay?ran bir çizgi üzerinde ya?amaktay?z.

She went on broodingly: "It's so dreadfully easy—killing people. And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter . . . that it's only you that matters! It's dangerous—that.

Yarg?daki deneyimim bana Tanr?'n?n, inanç, suç ve ceza gibi konular? biz ölümlülere b?rakt???n? ö?retti. Bunlar da uzun, zor süreçler. Kestirme yolu da yok.

Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.

And when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

Sa fii mort e ca si cum ai dormi. Dar nu-ti asezi corpul in pat, ci in pamant. Apoi trebuie sa-i explici lui Dumnezeu de ce vrei mai bine sa fii mort decat viu. Daca nu-l convingi iti stinge creierul si trebuie sa iei viata de la capat. S.a.m.d. S.a.m.d. S.a.m.d. S.a.m.d. Etc.

A fost un om bun! Cum sa fi murit de cancer?!

Wir sind viel laenger tot als lebendig, sagt die Tante, Tote brauchen viel mehr Glueck (...) Die Erde wird nie satt, sie will immer essen.

The irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive