Quotes About Mortality

He laughed in maddened frenzy, knowing somehow that he was no longer in a world of living creatures, but a world of death where soulless beings wandered in hopeless search of escape from their eternal prison. He stumbled on amidst them, laughing, talking, even singing gaily, his mind no longer a part of his mortal being. All about him, the creatures of the dark world followed in cringing companionship, knowing that the maddened mortal was almost one of them.

but when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain

You think about how fragile life is, about how quickly it goes by, how quickly things become lost. You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for

This is what dying is like, he thinks. You do it alone. You are debased by it. You are exposed to your own weaknesses and to the harsh reality of what it means.

while Man worked all those years to discover the secrets of life, he never managed to escape his overpowering fascination for death.

Life was uncertain. Death was forever.

The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to the dream-like quality of our lives, their brevity, mutability and lack of solid grounds. As such, by reminding us of our mortality, it can foster in us the virtue of humility.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.

The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.

Your forces will try to use shields, but I can tell you from experience that shields don't work. Shields key off life. They have nothing to latch on to with the dead.

Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don't forget that.

We all have to die, Johnrock—every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.

Does death invalidate life? No, it defines it, and in so doing creates its value.

You could die this day, so you should strive to do your best while you still lived. - Richard Cypher Rahl

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them