Quotes About Mortality

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....

Most people's lives—what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death.

Big Daddy: Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort.

he would die early, since nothing so fair could decline by common degrees in a faded season.

I'm starting to boil inside. I know I seem dreamy, but inside-well, I'm boiling! Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what I am doing!

Tienes que vivir cada hora como si fuera la última —dijo Kate— y cada día como si fueras inmortal.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last," she said, "and each day as if you were immortal

So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.

Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can indure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it. If we accept that art is mortal too, and that nothing is truly permanent, maybe we can see more clearly where the value of art and life is to be fount - in experiencing them.

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.' Seneca (c. 4 BCE to 65 AD)

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

But that's life, isn't it? For all we know, each day could be our last. What matters most is the appreciation and gratefullness we should feel for each precious day we have with one another.

But that's life, isn't it? For all we know, each day could be our last.

That stuff'll kill you." "What? Your coffee?" Jack was just doctoring his second cup. "No. All that saccharine. You're poisoning yourself." "We've all gotta go sometime." Jack went right about then.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

De nouveau il entendit la porte s'ouvrir, et, calme, du fond de la chambre, il vit venir à lui sa dernière heure.

On ne sait jamais quand la vie va vous trahir ; inutile de compter sur le lendemain, ni même sur l'heure qui va suivre ; il n'y a de certain que la mort.

As a result of the pandemic the population of England, which had probably peaked at around five million in the first half of the fourteenth century, suddenly plummeted by between a third and a half. What is more, further outbreaks in 1361–2, 1369 and 1374–5, though not as severe in their mortality, prevented any recovery in population levels, which remained stagnant at between two and three million from the mid-fourteenth century until the end of the fifteenth.

El lunes una parte de la familia se fue a sus respectivos empleos y ocupaciones, ya que de algo hay que morir

Y por eso Gregorovius insistía en conocer el pasado de la Maga, para que se muriera un poco menos de esa muerte hacia atrás que es toda ignorancia de las cosas arrastradas por el tiempo, para fijarla en su propio tiempo, you so beautiful but you gotta, para no amar a un fantasma que se deja acariciar el pelo bajo la luz verde

pero se le veía preocupado ya por la proximidad del final, algo que ocurre, según nos dijo, no cuando la edad te lo indica sino cuando los amigos empiezan a dejarte solo.

El tiempo es lo único que permanece y que nos sobrevivirá cuando ya no estemos.

Mira al cielo con la fascinación de quien cree que el tiempo es eterno, como yo lo creí también. Y como lo seguiría creyendo si la edad no empezara ya a asustarme, algo que nunca creí que me ocurriría.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that 1 yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.