Quotes About Mortality

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!

Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. —Hector Berlioz

If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

We learned postmortem that in addition to a massively enlarged liver, Amos had several cancerous growths. Even though his condition must have been building for years, he had acted normally until his body couldn't hold out any longer. Any hint of vulnerability might have meant loss of status, which is why males tend to hide weaknesses and act stoic around their rivals.

Para sobrellevar la pérdida, y aliviar nuestro propio terror a la mortalidad, a menudo contemplamos la muerte como una transición a otra vida. No tenemos evidencia de esta notable innovación mental en ningún otro animal.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

I have no fear of dying. And, you know, I would be very glad to talk with, with anybody, about the joy of going on. You know, what's next? It'll be fun, too. I have a great trust in God's constant care; this is just one chapter in a long, long book: this part that we call 'being on Earth,' you know?

No recuerdo donde leí que "la muerte debilita nuestra confianza en la vida al demostrar que al final todo es igualmente fútil ante la oscuridad definitiva". Sí, "fútil" es la palabra exacta.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next. – SHAKESPEARE

I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

Rascals, would you live forever?

Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

And so in that moment he completes the process of growing up. And begins the process of dying. Which is much the same thing.

Dites vite ! Je veux bien mourir de n'importe quoi, sauf de curiosité, mon brave ami !» —C'est toi le venin

Vivir de recuerdos es morir.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.