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Quotes About Mortality

Todos los idiotas se enamoran; así que muérete , listo.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!
~ Jorge Amado
Todo tiene sentido, pero yo me apagaré y nada importará. Efectivamente. No somos ni una anécdota. ¿Para qué preocuparse tanto? Mamíferos efímeros en un pedazo de piedra perdida en la inmensidad.
~ Jorge Fernández Díaz
la muerte acaba siempre por imponer su silencio en los que la contemplan.
~ Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In all the world, one man has been born, one man has died.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Nuestras vidas son los ríos que van a dar en la mar, que es el morir; allí van los señoríos derechos a se acabar y consumir; allí los ríos caudales, allí los otros medianos y más chicos, y llegados, son iguales los que viven por sus manos y los ricos
~ Jorge Manrique
Ich hatte mit aller Macht meines schnell zirkulierenden Blutes gespürt, dass mein Tod diesen Baum nicht seiner strahlenden Schönheit berauben würde, dass er die Welt nur meines Blickes berauben würde. (I had felt with the might of my fast circulating blood that my death would not rob this tree of its irradiant beauty, it would only rob the world of my gaze.)
~ Jorge Semprún
For death is personal only for the person itself, that is to the extent it is accepted, embraced, it can be personal for him, and for only.
~ Jorge Semprún
La mort n'est pas un évènement de la vie. La mort ne peut être vécue », avait écrit ce con de Wittgenstein.
~ Jorge Semprún
Supuso, entonces, que ya había muerto, y que iba subiendo entre tanta y tanta estrella, subiendo muy suavemente camino directo del cielo. Después cerró los ojos. Estaba tan agotada que no se dio cuenta de que sólo en ese instante moría, y no antes, cuando creyó ver a todas las constelaciones rodeándola.
~ José Donoso
Andrés palpó la gasa delicadamente, llevándola hacia la ventana para mirar la luz que hería el recamado. Estuvo largo rato pensativo, examinando ese objeto vivo aún pero a punto de expirar, extendido levísimo en sus brazos, brillante en medio de todo el polvo.
~ José Donoso
tenía ya esa despreocupación, esa indescifrable indiferencia de los que se van a morir algunos meses después.
~ José Lezama Lima
he fell ill with a disease that only the grave can cure
~ Jose Rizal
Tal vez el estar muriendo sea un rumor que puede no oírse, pero el morir es un silencio que tiene que ser escuchado.
~ Josefina Vicens
The union of the Word and Mind produces that mystery which is called life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for their-in lies the secret of mortality.
~ Joseph Addison
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.
~ Joseph Addison
When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
~ Joseph Addison
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
~ Joseph Addison
Disease generally brings that equality which death completes.
~ Joseph Addison
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;
~ Joseph Addison
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
~ Joseph Conrad