Quotes About Mortality

But I deceived myself. It takes so many years To learn that one is dead!

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. Let thy servant depart, Having seen thy salvation.

We die with the dying; see they return and bring us with them.

You none of you understand how old you are And death will come to you as a mild surprise, A momentary shudder in a vacant room.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.

Death itself would turn coward and flee.

Go now—return to the land of the living, if you can. You will not receive such a gift a second time.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

It's the only bad thing about animals," she told Cleon. "Most don't live as long as we do." "I know, sweet," Cleon said, kissing first one of her eyelids, then the other. "But think how bleak life would be without them.

Death is God, I said. Life is Man. The day we are born begins our love affair with death.

It was his second day without water, a matter between himself and death.

That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?" No, not dying, Son. Living.

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.

Si te quedas en el hoy mucho tiempo, este se convierte en tu tumba».

Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.

That death isn't death. It's not the end because we aren't just our minds or our bodies. We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

Better be a bloodless carcase than alive with the blood rotting in your body.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.