Quotes About Mortality

I bequeath my soul to God… My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

What then remains but that we still should cryFor being born, and, being born, to die?

Who then to frail mortality shall trustBut limns on water, or but writes in dust.

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born, to die?

Ä°nsanlar?n ölümden korkmas? çocuklar?n karanl?k bir yere girmekten korkmalar?na benzer, çocuklar?n doÄŸal korkusunu masallar nas?l artt?r?rsa, insan?n ölüm korkusu da öyle artar.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

?esto sam razmišljao o smrti i zaklju?io da je ponajmanje od svih zala.

If you really love life you're walking in the shadow of death all the time...Death is the shadow of life, and the more one is obsessed with life the more one is obsesses with death. I'm greedy for life and I'm greedy as an artist. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

BED. Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a spade; said of one that is dead and buried. You will go up a ladder to bed, i.e. you will be hanged.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

No, no, not in the law, it ain't. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might as well be sense as serves the living, for it won't serve the dead, nohow.

I will be dust, but dust in love

Polvo serán, mas polvo enamorado.

De qué sirve presumir, rosal, de buen parecer, si aun no acabas de nacer cuando empiezas a morir?

Llama que a la inmortal vida trasciende, ni teme con el cuerpo sepultura, ni el tiemnpo la marchita ni la ofende.

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

É irracional desejar a fama póstuma, pois as pessoas que de facto se recordam de nós também morreram e o nosso nome depressa passa a ser conhecido apenas por académicos especialistas e antiquários. Para além disso, de que serve tentar impressionar a posteridade – são pessoas que nunca vamos conhecer. O que valerá a sua opinião?

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.