Quotes About Mortality

I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me how to die well and live well.

To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said. -from That intention is judge of our actions

As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that

Meditar previamente sobre a morte é meditar previamente sobre a liberdade.Quem aprendeu a morrer desaprendeu a se subjugar. Não há nenhum mal na vida para aquele que bem compreendeu que a privação da vida não é um mal. Saber morrer liberta-nos de toda sujeição e imposição.

Illam meae si partem animae tulit Maturior vis, quid moror altera? Nec carus aeque, nec superstes Integer. Ille dies ultramque Ducet ruinam. [Wenn meinen besten Teil der Seele die Parzen vor der Zeit abrissen, was zaudert der andere, der mir nicht lieber, nicht überlebender ist! Ein Tag stürzt uns beide ins Grab.]

To lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years hence, is the same folly as to be sorry we were not alive a hundred years ago.

Felsefenin insanlara, yaÅŸamaya baÅŸlarken de, ölüme doÄŸru giderken de söyleyecekleri vard?r.

Es ar nodomu piejaucu n?vei nedudz r?gtuma, lai, ?emot v?r? t?s pieejam?bu, kav?tu j?s p?r?k alkat?gi un nesapr?t?gi tiekties p?c t?s.

Hayattan sonra ölümdesiniz; ama hayatta iken ölmektesiniz.

But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.

Vi gjør kanskje rett i å klandre oss selv for å frembringe noe så tåpelig som mennesket, og i å kalle akten skammelig og de organer som brukes til den, for skamdeler (mine egne er for tiden blitt så ynkelige at jeg virkelig skammer meg over dem).

Den ville i det minste i drømme varme opp det blod som naturen har latt i stikken, den ville løftet haken og drøyet både musklene, energien og livsgleden for denne stakkaren som i full fart iler mot sin undergang.

he who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36

Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est préméditation de la liberté. Qui a appris à mourir, il a désappris à servir. Le savoir mourir nous affranchit de toute sujétion et contrainte. Il n'y a rien de mal en la vie pour celui qui a bien compris que la privation de la vie n'est pas mal.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

let us learn to withstand it resolutely, and to fight it. And to start to rid it of its greatest advantage over us, let us take a completely different route from the usual one. Let us rid it of its strangeness, get to know it, become accustomed to it. Let us have nothing so often in our minds as death. Let us picture it in our imagination constantly, in all its aspects.

Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.

It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi

Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above. If it weren't for God, the almighty vacuum would be too crushing to endure, but once God was with you, it was a different story.