Quotes About Mortality

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything ' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Humans are so strange. Now I have seen you. It is odd. You do not look any different. Yet I know you must be. Dying changes a person.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the veil that separates mortals and immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear their breathings and feel the pulsations of the heart of the infinite. JAMES A. GARFIELD

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out;

It is no more possible to make life easy than it is to grow a herb of immortality.

don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death," Depp reflected. "You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

Mostly, she tried to get on with her life, even as she carried around her loss and her horror. The lesson she took from River's death was to be more selfish: since life is fleeting, don't waste it with the wrong people.

And they seem to forget that you are a mere mortal; flesh and bone, bruisable and scare-able.

D'après mon amie Kim, ai-je dit, c'est signe de profondeur d'âme. Pour elle, le monde est divisé entre les personnes qui envisagent leurs obsèques et les autres. Les artistes et les gens brillants appartiennent à la première catégorie.

Kaže da se svijet dijeli na ljude koji zamišljaju svoj sprovod i one koji ga ne zamišljaju, te da pametni i umjetni?ki nastrojeni ljudi spadaju u prvu kategoriju.

Teddy is never going to graduate from T-ball to baseball. He's never going to grow a mustache. Never going to get into a fistfight or shoot a deer or kiss a girl or have sex or fall in love or get married or father his own curly-haired child. I'm only ten years older than him, but it's like I've already had so much more life. It is unfair, If one of us should have been left behind, if one of us should have been given the opportunity for more life, it should be him.

She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.

To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember every word. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words right and collect my A.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."—Lao-Tzu.

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

He gulped. "No, we aren't done chatting. Why aren't you afraid of dying?" "Everything and everyone has an end," she said. "I mean, you're going to be killed soon and though I loathe the thought, you don't see me crying about that, either. I know what will happen, and I accept what cannot be changed. I'm trying to live while I can. While WE can. Dwelling on the bad is what destroys all hints of joy.

I've heard it said your entire life flashes before your eyes as you die. Those words comfort those who have loved and been loved but torment those who have failed and been failed.

Today you live, tomorrow you die. Make what you do in the meantime matter. -Troika

Firstlife matters," I repeat. "Hear, hear," Sloan calls. "I'm looking forward to wrinkled skin, gray hairs and most especially the use of diapers.

He'd heard the time seep away, a poisonous tick-tock in his mind, every beat of the clock a mocking reminder of mortality and pain.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness — as might be judged by certain standards — there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

Dead was still dead, whether the killer was exotic, professional, or amateur. Getting killed was incredibly easy. Anyone could do it. Staying safe and alive was much harder.

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