Quotes About Mortality

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

Sometimes I felt so badly about those cats that I'd find myself wishing that both I and the cats could simply cease to exist.

Nebesa nejsou humánní a život nade mnou a pode mnou a ve mnÄ› také ne.

No matter how you tell yourself It's what we all go through Those lines are pretty hard to take When they're staring back at you Oh, scared you'll run out of time When did the choices get so hard With so much more at stake Life gets mighty precious When there's less of it to waste

we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying.

Taste is the enemy of a good death.

Teenage kids have no sense of mortality -- yours or theirs.

And all the beautiful words of the poets, Cornelius, can say nothing, I swear to you, of the fifty thousand ways to die like a dog, within a few hours.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

All are born with the Light of Christ, a guiding influence which permits each person to recognize right from wrong. What we do with that light and how we respond to those promptings to live righteously is part of the test of mortality.

Whatever your main struggle is, it is insignificant in the face of your death; it is petty and unimportant and has no meaning at all. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

She'd observed this before: how -- ironically -- it took death to make one feel momentarily alive, truly present, minute to minute.

You die. It's over. But right now, I'm not sure.

Death is so close, always, a breath away

An old man hobbled by, his prescription bag death-gripped between his gnarly hand and the top of his walker. He glared at Adam, or maybe that was just the way he looked at the world now. Adam

There's a Shakespeare quote," she said. "From Hamlet. He says that death is—and I think I have the quote right—an undiscovered country from whose borne no traveler returns." He

They all hunger for the details not solely because they are ghoulish—that's part of it, no question—but more because they need to know that it can't possibly happen to them.

Frank Ache stopped. He sniffled, used a once-giant hand to wipe his face. His receding hairline was gone now, though big tufts stayed on the side. His dark olive skin was now the gray of a city street after a rainstorm. "What

Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

It's from Lear," she said. "Wait. Yes. 'As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

Who Needs the Taj Mahal when it's a drag to live at all?