Quotes About Mortality

Dass man, wenn man sehr müde ist, sagt, man sei todmüde, fiel mir ein, und dass man, wenn man todmüde ist, doch voller Leben ist, und wenn man lebensmüde ist, schon dem Tod nahe.

Ich dachte früher, wer nicht mehr zu lange zu leben hat, sagt die Wahrheit.Aber vielleicht sind die, die nicht mehr lange zu leben haben, die schlimmsten Lügner. Wenn sie sichjetzt nicht in Szene setzen, wann dann? Die Wahrheit... Was ist die Wahrheit, auf die der Richter einem keinen Brief und kein Siegel gibt? Und was die Lüge, auf die er es einem gibt? Was ist die Wahrheit, wenn sie nur durch die Köpfe vagabundiert und nicht gehörig festgestellt wird?

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...

Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought.

All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

It follows, in the words of Epicurus, that "Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Fear of death is not wisdom, since no one knows whether death may not be the greater good.

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Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

We who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus' life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 4:11

What if you were to die today... Tomorrow is not a promise but a chance.

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

Am I afraid of President Maurizio Zamparini's reputation for hiring and firing? No, the only thing I fear is death!

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead... That's a very scary moment.

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.