Quotes About Mortality

But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one. (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: I love you, Janet.) [They were. -Janet.]

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

I shall not be alive a half decade hence," said Seldon, "and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, 'man.

Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

Life is a successive symphony of losses.

Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the chance he had lived with all these years.

What I have done is to choose between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death - That is the true violation of the Third Law. Not this. As a robot I might live forever, yes. But I tell you that I would rather die as a man than live eternally as a robot.

No puede esperarse que el Universo respete las emociones humanas. Envejecerá y morirá sin consideración alguna para con los lamentos del hombre, y sus componentes seguirán alejándose unos de otros en un proceso de eterna expansión incluso después de que las galaxias se hayan consumido hasta convertirse en cenizas de enanas blancas.

How far is living from dying?

What use is my life to me? I envy the dead. All day I envy them. I can't even earn my death.

Now I'm entirely without hope, and one dies of that more quickly than of cancer

A slit throat cannot be sewn together again.

La vida es un ruido entre dos grandes silencios

Si nada me duele, es que amanecí muerta

Cuánto vive el hombre, por fin? ¿Vive mil años o uno solo? ¿Vive una semana o varios siglos? ¿Por cuánto tiempo muere el hombre? ¿Qué quiere decir para siempre? PABLO NERUDA

thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn't worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. If anyone had told me then that I would live to be more than ninety, I would have put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger.

no debía temer a los muertos, sino a los vivos

Nada es para siempre, hija, sólo la muerte.

Quiero pensar que es un amor elegante y que no tendrá un final vulgar. Tal vez es cierto lo que él dice: que seguiremos de la mano al otro lado de la muerte. Sólo espero que ninguno de los dos se extravíe en la senilidad, y el otro tenga que cuidar su cuerpo decrépito. Vivir juntos y lúcidos hasta el último día, ése sería el ideal.

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

Muertos, casi todos mis amores están muertos, ése es el precio de vivir tanto como he vivido