Quotes About Mortality

What is this world? what asketh men to have?Now with his love, now in his colde graveAllone, withouten any compaignye.

For in the sterres, clerer than is glas,Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede,The deeth of every man.

We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man? Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock.

Zu viel! Zu viel! Mein ganzes Sein ist in dem einen Augenblick. Jetzt stirb. Mehr ist unmöglich.

Woyzeck, I shudder when I think that the earth takes a whole day to rotate. What a waste of time! And where's it going to end? Woyzeck, the very sight of a millwheel depresses me.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

At evening the complaint of the cuckoo Grows still in the wood. The grain bends its head deeper, The red poppy. Darkening thunder drives Over the hill. The old song of the cricket Dies in the field. The leaves of the chestnut tree Stir no more. Your clothes rustle On the winding stair. The candle gleams silently In the dark room; A silver hand Puts the light out; Windless, starless night.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

When a man dies a world perishes--the world which he bore in his head. The more intelligent the head, the more clear, significant, and comprehensive was its world, the more terrible its destruction.

The primary aim of all religions and philosophical systems is to furnish an antidote to the certainty of death.

The greatest thing in life is to die young — but delay it as long as possible.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

The Decathlon was conceived to assess the men's success from 65 to 80, but all but one of the events could be estimated for the 14 men who died between 58 and 64 years of age, and therefore they were included. Men who died before their 58th birthdays, however, were excluded. ** The men were coded

It is not the "disturbance" of the normal course of events; it is the manifestation of something utterly new. Eternal life has appeared in the midst of mortality.13