Quotes About Mortality

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Your words smell of corpses.

If tomorrow the good Lord decides that's my last day, then I'm not going to go down with a frown. I'm going down with a smile on my face, knowing that I've gotten everything out of life.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

I've only got so much time on this Earth and then that's it. So I better make the most of it.

You only have so much time on this planet.

If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.

Tutto passa. Le sofferenze, i tormenti, il sangue, la fame e la pestilenza. La spada sparirà, e le stelle invece rimarranno, quando anche le ombre dei nostri corpi e delle nostre azioni più non saranno sulla terra. Non esiste uomo che non lo sappia. Perché allora non vogliamo rivolgere il nostro sguardo alle stelle?

Quand elle n'est pas celle du mort, la voix-off de narrateur est souvent celle du presque-mort, de celui qui a achevé le cours de sa vie et n'attend que la mort.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)

The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.

Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.

If I can, I will prevent my death from saying anything not first said by my life.

Todos los días van hacia la muerte, el último la alcanza.

que a morte me encontre plantando minhas couves, mas despreocupado com ela e ainda mais com minha horta inacabada.

I feel death pinching me by the throat, or pulling me by the back.