Quotes About Mortality

To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers.

You know, it's really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.

There is no perfection only life Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway.

It was only an idea, a sudden flash, but it kept coming back to me, and I couldn't help thinking, why am I alive, what good is there in going on, but it's not true really, I didn't think anything of the sort, I was hardly thinking at all, I just imagined myself no longer alive and suddenly I felt such bliss, such strange bliss that I wanted to laugh and maybe really did begin to laugh.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.

The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back onto earth, where everything alive eats and can be eaten.

Men grow old, the end draws near, each moment becomes more and more valuable, and there is no time to waste over recollections.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know hot to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know hot to be dead.

If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.

Hiçbir tehlike olmamas?na raÄŸmen, hayat?ndaki bir an?n diÄŸer bütün anlar gibi hiçliÄŸe dönüÅŸecek yerde zaman?n ak???ndan kopar?laca??n? ve gün gelip aptalca bir rastlant?n?n sonucunda iyi gömülmemiÅŸ bir ceset gibi canland?r?laca??n? düÅŸünerek belli bir s?k?nt? duymaktan alam?yordu kendini.

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone.

Los cuerpos desnudos y mojados de las mujeres se empujaban impacientes para ver de cerca la muerte, para verla en una cara familiar, conocida.

It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.

Smrt ima dva vida: ona je nebivanje, ali i strašna stvarna okolnost leša. [...] Biti leš, to je nepodnošljiva uvreda. Još prije nekoliko sekundi biti ljudsko bi?e koje je branilo svoj stid, posve?enost golotinje i intimitet, a zatim tek sekunda smrti da bi naše tijelo odjednom bilo na raspolaganju bilo kome, da ga se može razgolititi, razrezati, pregledavati mu utrobu gadljivo za?epljena nosa zbog njezinog smrada, gurnuti u hladnjak ili u vatru.

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Sabe que só o abraço da morte pode apaziguá-lo, esse abraço que ele preencherá com o corpo todo e com a alma inteira e onde enfim achará a sua grandeza; sabe que só a morte pode vingá-lo e acusar de assassínio os que o escarnecem.

Si el hombre sólo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto.

human lifetime is 80 years long on average. A person imagines and organizes his life with that span in mind. What I have just said everyone knows, but only rarely do we realize that the number of years granted us is not merely a quantitative fact, an external feature (like nose length or eye color), but is part of the very definition of the human.

And what better consolation for a dying person than to say to himself: this land bores us? I can imagine those words in neon over the cemetery gates.

Everyone has trouble accepting the fact he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.

Ä°nsan hayat?na son verebilir ama ölümsüzlüÄŸüne son veremez.

Nunca se pode saber o que se deve querer porque só se tem uma vida que não pode ser comparada com vidas anteriores nem rectificada em vidas posteriores.

L'idée m'envahit qu'un destin souvent s'achève bien avant la mort, que le moment de la fin de coïncide pas avec celui de la mort, et que le destin de Jaroslav était arrivé à son terme.