Quotes About Mortality

I hate getting old. Why can't we all stay twenty until the end, then just fall over

an untutored lout with a sledgehammer could kill you just as dead as an assassin with a stiletto.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.

I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burn With love. How pitiful is our enforced return To those small things we are the masters of.

It led on and on; vistas of forgotten metal; moribund, stiff in a thousand attitudes of mortality; with not a rat, not a mouse; not a bat, not a spider. Only the Lamb, sitting in his high chair with a faint smile upon his lips; alone in the luxury of his vaulted chamber, where the red carpet was like blood, and the walls were lined with books that rose up...up... volume after volume until the shadows engulfed them.

I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Death is among us. To see it always and only as a negative subject is to lose sight of its power to enhance every moment.

To live fully we would need to let go of our fear of dying.

love is the only force that allows us to hold one another close beyond the grave. that is why knowing how to love each other is also a way of knowing how to die.

When I was approaching the age of forty and facing the type of cancer scares that have become so commonplace in women's lives they are practically routine, my first thought as I waited for test results was that I was not ready to die because I had not yet found the love my heart had been seeking.

Cos'è che vogliono? Si rendono conto di essere vivi? Come se la prolungata e intensa esposizione alla morte fosse la condizione necessaria per partecipare appieno della propria vita.

How much of our earth has been wet by blood because of jealousy! And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love.

I'm getting old, I said again, and that was true. I had lived more than fifty years and most men were lucky to see forty. Yet all old age was bringing was the death of dreams.

Men are cruel,' I said, 'and the gods made us like themselves

Mostre-me um guerreiro humilde, e eu verei um cadáver

The night is the domain of the dead, and the living fear it...

La mort était le meilleur remède contre tous les petits maux de l'existence.

Souviens-toi que tu n'es qu'un homme.»

La vie de l'homme, avec tous ses projets, s'élève comme une petite tour dont la mort est le couronnement.

Learn then, my son, that death is a benefit to all men: it is the night of that restless day we call by the name of life.

Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of Especially when the entire race is in it together Although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older Because it's such a privilege to not die prematurely

for humans, death meant the end of everything. They lived in a condition of uncertainty, and maybe that was what made their lives so valuable. No human knew what would happen to his soul after death, so they had to make the best of things in life. And