Quotes About Mortality

Life has a very simple plot, First you're here And then you're not.

One day the sun will die, one day the galaxy will die, one day the entire Universe will die. I'm not feeling too good myself. So, what have I learned over my long and weird life? Well, firstly, that there are two kinds of people, and I don't much care for either of them. Secondly, when faced with a difficult choice, either way is often best. Thirdly, always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

But at heart what we are talking about is not pathology but an intense conflictual knowing, a knowing that we are worthy smacking up against a knowing that we are just passing through: a knowing, that is, that we matter and that we do not matter. This is a true and not a pathological understanding. Every smart person possesses this understanding and can't help but feel distressed by this understanding.

Fundamentally we feel that we really belong to death already, and that every new day is a miracle. It

I've got a little secret for you. The only time you're safe?really safe?is when you're dead.

Sam's death had shown them that the Covenant were not invincible. They could be beaten. At a high cost, however. John finally understood what the Chief had meant—the difference between a life wasted and a life spent.

A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Die uns vorleben wollen wie leicht das Sterben ist Wenn sie uns vorsterben wollten wie leicht wäre das Leben.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

there are those who are cursed to live in times when death seems to come out of season, when the winter of a man's life may leap upon him in the midst of summer greenness.

Mans vanity transgresses death

I don't remember much about my life," he confessed. "I vaguely remember that I wasn't the nicest cat. Well, if I had been, I wouldn't have ended up here, would I? When I was alive, I know I cared a lot about power. But what does that power mean now?" He shrugged. "Nothing. When you spend forever slinking through a dark and dying forest, alone, you realize how little power you ever had.

Somewhere in there Clear Sky could be dying—and there's nothing I can do about it.

Did Leafpool really think that dying made a dumb cat wise? They could walk in other cats' dreams, but so could he. That didn't mean he knew the answer to everything.

What happens if he kills me here? Will I be really dead?

I speak as though it all happened yesterday. Yesterday indeed is recent, but not enough. For what I tell this evening is passing this evening, at this passing hour. I'm no longer with these assassins, in this bed of terror, but in my distant refuge, my hands twined together, my head bowed, weak, breathless, calm, free, and older than I'll have ever been, if my calculations are correct.

Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom.

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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Death ... people nowadays seem to regard as something odd, whereas it is well known to be the commonest thing in the world.

Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.