Quotes About Mortality

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Ä°nsan?n doÄŸuÅŸunu görmekten herkes kaçar ama ölümünü görmeye hep koÅŸa koÅŸa gideriz. Ä°nsan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda, geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz.

Les hommes, quelque beau visage que fortune leur fasse, ne se peuvent appeler heureux jusqu'à ce qu'on leur ai vu passer le dernier jour de leur vie, à cause de l'incertitude et de la variabilité des choses humaines qui d'un bien léger mouvement se changent d'un état en un autre tout divers

Para empezar a privar a la muerte de su mayor ventaja sobre nosotros, adoptemos una actitud del todo opuesta a la común; privemos a la muerte de su extrañeza, frecuentémosla, acostumbrémonos a ella; no tengamos nada más presente que la muerte. No sabemos dónde nos espera la muerte: así pues esperémosla en todas partes. Practicar la muerte es practicar la libertad.

It is only the fear of death that makes death seem important.

YaÅŸamak için topra??m?z olmayabilir ama ölmek için toprak bulunur nas?l olsa

Sólo busco en los libros el gusto que me proporcione un honrado entretenimiento; o, si estudio, solo busco la ciencia que trate del conocimiento de mí mismo y que me instruya en un bien morir y un bien vivir

The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egostical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks. We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going . So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

It's natural to die. 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.

You live you die and death not ends it.

As Genji mused about the transitory nature of life, intense feelings of weariness and distaste for the world overwhelmed him. How much longer must he go on living in it now that he had been left behind?

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Remember you must die.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

If you don't remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can't cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.

Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.

every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die.

If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live?

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch. What happened? Matt asked, gasping. I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.

According to a 2009 Harvard Medical School study, as many as 45,000 people die annually in the United States because they lack health insurance. As one of the study's coauthors pointed out, this works out to about one death every twelve minutes. It's

I knew that no matter what there would be no mercy to it, no kindness allowed. You couldn't return a kindness after you were dead.

Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment. Easier for the one who was dying, maybe.