Quotes About Mortality

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.

Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don't you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.' Pug

Fear is the little death, daughter. It kills in tiny pieces.

there was no answer he knew, until he actually faced death.

Life has shown me all too often it's a fragile gift. Remember, no one gets out of life alive.

From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

It's tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing.

That a life lasts longer than the actual body through which it moves.

Now who knows whether Socrates actually undertook what sounds like a pretty lame attempt at becoming a poet in the last month of his life? I'm the mother of a professional poet, and I know what goes into the making of such a creature. You might as well try to become a mathematician or a cosmologist in the last thirty days of your life.

Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people.

In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.

To be a young woman is to face your own annihilation in innumerable ways or to flee it or the knowledge of it, or all these things at once. "The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world," said Edgar Allan Poe, who must not have imagined it from the perspective of women who prefer to live.

Los adolescentes se imaginan muriendo jóvenes porque les es más fácil imaginarse la muerte que imaginarse a la persona en la quizá los conviertan todas las decisiones y responsabilidades de la vida adulta.

Los adolescentes se imaginan muriendo jóvenes porque les es más fácil imaginarse la muerte que imaginarse a la persona en la que quizá los conviertan todas las decisiones y responsabilidades de la vida adulta.

She was dead even before she was a corpse.

Nobody gets over anything; time doesn't heal any wounds; if he stopped loving her today, as one of George Jones's most famous songs has it, it's because he's dead.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

Scott ve svém deníku oslavoval hrdinskou smrt. A pÃ…â"¢itom je mnohem snazÅ¡í zemÃ…â"¢ít než žít v bídÄ› a trápení. Utrpení Wildových muž? spo?ívá v tom, že pokra?ují i pÃ…â"¢es vÄ›domí blízké smrti.

Unser Leben ist wie ein Bogen eingespannt zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wer sich seines Endes dabei bewusst ist, kann intensiver leben, seine Ideen wie Pfeile genauer und weiter schießen. Diese Art Zielsicherheit gehört zur Kunst des Lebens. Sie besteht nicht nur darin, all seine Fähigkeiten optimal zu nutzen, sie gilt vielmehr selbst Ziel zu sein.

Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod.

Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh would be resurrected, but they did not accept the resurrection of the mases

to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying?

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?