Quotes About Mortality

How do you know if you are going to die?" I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With strange confidence she answered, "When you can no longer make a fist.

Men die once and women die twice. Women die as beauties before their bodies die.

The worn tired stars say you shall die early and die dirty. The clean cold stars say you shall die late and die clean. The runaway stars say you shall never die at all, never at all.

Over the past three thousand years, smallpox may have killed more people than any other disease on Earth.

Between 1400 and 1800, smallpox killed an estimated five hundred million people every century in Europe alone.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery.

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

We are fragile. We're creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans.

El tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez hace con el alma. Lo pudre.

Don't you feel like a little glass of rum? It's Cuban, like all the good stuff that kills you.

I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.

Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.

Vrijeme ?ini s tijelom ono što glupost ?ini s dušom. Kvari ga.

In this dog-eat-dog world, he thought, when you get old and even common sense hurts, a crumb of kindness or pity is a dish fit for the gods.

He'd lived his forty-seven years with enviable panache and intensity, maintaining that human beings foolishly allowed their existence to drift by as if they were going to live for ever: that was their undoing.

The territory of humans is life, said the doctor. Death does not belong to us

El territorio de los seres humanos es la vida. La muerte no nos pertenece.

?ovjek ne može shvatiti ništa u životu dok ne shvati smrt.

El tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez hace con el alma, dijo, señalándose a sí mismo. Lo pudre.

No es pot entendre res de la vida fins que un no entén la mort.

Sempre dizia que os seres humanos deixavam a vida passar como se fossem viver para sempre e que isso era a sua perdição.

No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno entiende la muerte.