Quotes About Mortality

it was possible to live in harmony with mortals of all persuasions and remain vital and engaged with the world. These things he would neither sell nor offer for sale

Corum stared at the mired hand, now once again his. "It is nothing," he murmured. "I have killed my friend.

We are friends to Death, but not His servants.

He sighed. "Well, our advice was foolish. Now you will die when we die." "I would rather that, I think," I said.

Time gathers speed as we get older. Life flashes by all too fast, and is over all too soon.

Life is tough, then you die. The sooner you accept that and move on with your life, the better off you'll be.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead.

Death means you are in the third person.

a person who, as the line went, would live in many places and die everywhere.

It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.

there are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.

We don't die well in America.

Quanto mais branco o pão, mais depressa você vai para o caixão.

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.