Quotes About Mortality

I tried to imagine myself dead, someone sorting carelessly through my belongings. What was there really of my life? Canceled checks. Reports all typewritten and filed. Everything of value reduced to terse prose. I didn't keep much myself, didn't hoard or save.

Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay in his book on the trauma of combat, Odysseus in America, reminds us that there are "two momentous human universals": that we are all born helpless and dependent, and that we are all mortal and we know it. The only healthy way to deal with this vulnerability is to reach out and hold each other. Then, calmed and strengthened, we can walk out into the world

People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

Quien cree que no hay nada peor que morirse poco sabe de la vida.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

And it comes to me that the echoes of my own life will likely die away in that way thunder does. But this life, what a shining thing—it is enough.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life. My

Even in the dark I could see that [the tree] was dying, and doing it alone in the middle of these unconcerned pines. That was the absolute way of things. Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Anybody who thinks dying is the worst thing doesn't know a thing about life.

I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,' a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

Quem acha que morrer é a pior coisa do mundo não sabe nada sobre a vida.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life

Life will be life and death will be death

an angry man can later become happy, a resentful man can become pleased, but a kingdom once destroyed can never be restored nor the dead brought back to life

Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.

This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.

I wondered how many people had sung By the dawn's early light' yesterday and were dead today.

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

There is no eternal blessedness in the world to come because there is no world to come.

and I shivered as I thought once again how inexpressibly sad it was that the ending of a whole human life, from birth and childhood, through adult maturity to extreme old age, should here be marked by no blood relative or heart's friend, but only by two men connected by nothing more than business, one of whom had never so much as set eyes upon the woman during her life, besides those present in an even more bleakly professional capacity.

How do any of us get out of this life alive?

Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.

to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.