Quotes About Mortality

Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly

He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.

We humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.

tapes, like photographs and videos, are [nothing more than] a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase.

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.

Not aging is not the same as living

Begitu kita ingin tahu bagaimana kita akan mati, berarti kita belajar tentang bagaimana kita harus hidup (hal 87, Selasa Bersama Morrie)

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. Is today the day I die? he said.

Dying is not in synonymous with Useless

The End is coming. What will you do with the time you have left?

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left? -Morrie

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.

Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas. He jotted down his thoughts on yellow pads, envelopes, folders, scrap paper. He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: "Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it"; "Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others"; "Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

You might say that is "too young" to die. But what is too young for a life?

Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else"—

That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Which is? Make peace with living.

Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't.

For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it

Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die.

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. - Morrie

It's natural to die, he said again. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature. He smiled at the plant. We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.