Quotes About Mortality

Er zeigte ihnen, dass ihre Unsterblichkeit verglichen mit seiner eigenen ein alberner Witz war.

Denying Ahab greatness is an aesthetic blunder: He is akin to Achilles, Odysseus, and King David in one register, and to Don Quixote, Hamlet, and the High Romantic Prometheus of Goethe and Shelley in another. Call the first mode a transcendent heroism and the second the persistence of vision. Both ways are antithetical to nature and protest against our mortality. The epic hero will never submit or yield.

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

Every poet begins (however 'unconsciously') by rebelling more strongly against the fear of death than all other men and women do.

All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

the great artist of the intransitive verb also avoided objects of his sexual drive; what evidence we have indicates that he carnally embraced himself only, and walked the open road with only the thought of death and the knowledge of death as his close companions

Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don't suck my breath.

Exista un soi de oameni care ... se gindesc atit de mult la lumea cealalta, incit n-ajung niciodata sa invete cum sa traiasca in lumea asta.

Infant mortality of African Americans is twice that of whites, and black babies born in more racially segregated cities have higher rates of mortality. The life expectancy of African Americans is as much as six years less than that of whites.

But to die – actually to die – that's an honour only ever granted to the living. The cost of admission.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.

Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death? I guess it depends on how you die.

Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.