Quotes About Mortality

What did a young body mean, when you could see the dust of the centuries in the other person's eyes?

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

Freedom is only available through Death!

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told.A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish? - Henry, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.

Without death life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that could never be sung. For how would one finish it?

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

Tell you now children—you're all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie. —Found written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, June 6th, 1988

The day Henry made a choice.....that some men are just too interesting to die.

It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone—leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.

I didn't like my father all that much," said the admiral. "But before he died, he gave me a piece of advice. The only one that ever really made a difference in my life. 'Hug your children,' he said. 'Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

More people today die with cancer, than because of cancer.

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

I lowered my gaze from the sky to the trees and caught sight of the cast-off skin of a cicada falling to the ground. I'd heard somewhere that cicadas only had a lifespan of a few weeks. Their precious, short life was spent braving the heat of summer, single-mindedly calling out for a mate, then, when they finally stopped singing, they slipped from that tree that had been their home and returned to the ground. They leave behind the only home they've ever known and die.

to be, or not to be?

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

SOLOMON KUGEL His performance, of late, had been subpar. Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.

Just move the train, for fuck's sake, she's not getting any deader.

Men's strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked will I return. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.