Quotes About Mortality

Mark, Reader, my cry! Bend thy thoughts on the Sky, And in midst of prosperity, know thou may'st die. While the great Loom of God works in darkness above, And our trials here below are but threads of His Love.

Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can't I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I'd like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.

This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War, she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

Ölü insanlar?n fotoÄŸraflar? neden hep böyle soluk oluyor, diye merak etti Josephine. Bir insan ölür ölmez fotoÄŸraf? da ölüyordu.

Las musas tenían por costumbre aniquilar a los que inspiraban.

Los hombres dicen que el tiempo pasa....el tiempo dice que los hombres mueren

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

You begin to know that life is transient, and even at its longest, far too short.

I've watched the seconds pat and nurse Their man; and seen him put to bed; With twenty guineas in his purse, And not an eye within his head. —J.H. Reynolds, The Fancy

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.

Death is something you can add to every day.

All my life, I have taken satisfaction in finishing things in order that I may experience a sense of achievement, regardless of whether the thing was really worth achieving. ... Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.

There was something naïve, sweetly arrogant about the doctor's assumption that everyone wanted to live forever.

Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

Why is eight years old middle-aged?" he asked a detective one day. When the man asked what Tim meant, he said, "Laura died at sixteen. For her, eight was middle-aged.

If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. - Steve Jobs.

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh By

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso