Quotes About Mortality

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

It was at that moment, that moment right before my certain death, that I finally realized that nothing done in selfish or vain ambition will ever last. Anything that you do solely for yourself, will rot away, decompose, turn to dust and blow away at the moment of your passing.

I have visited eighteen government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 50,000 destroyed men -- men who were the pick of the nation eighteen years ago. The very able chief surgeon at the government hospital; at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800 of the living dead, told me that mortality among veterans is three times as great as among those who stayed at home. Boys

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better only god knows.

W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows

I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and did not come to life again, would it not be quite inevitable that in the end everything should be dead and nothing alive?... [W]hat possible means could prevent their number from being exhausted by death?

Pentru a înv??a s? tr?iasc? bine, cineva trebuie mai întâi s? înve?e s? moar? bine

?ó là m?t câu h?i ph?c t?p, mà ??i ng??i thì ng?n ng?i.

Those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for death and dying...

This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.

whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now: that's what we will be like at the moment of death