Quotes About Mortality

But we are all finally tricked and slapped to death.

Existem bilhões de pessoas no mundo que não atingem o sucesso pela criação. Quer me dizer que elas estão mortas? – Sim. – E você tem uma alma? Você é um dos poucos que tem uma alma? – Diria que sim.

Kuolema itsessään ei ole kamalaa, vaan ne elämät jotka ihmiset elävät, tai eivät elä kunnes kuolevat. He eivät arvosta elämiään, he kusevat elämiensä päälle, paskantavat niille.

Well, we all ended up dead, that was just mathematics.

Now I'm thinking that dying is such a strange and ordinary thing.

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1Morir en el suelo de la cocina a las siete de la mañana mientras otra gente hace huevos fritos no es tan grave salvo cuando te pasa a ti.

Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England.

Like a painting, we will be erased. Like a flower, we will dry up here on earth. Like plumed vestments of the precious bird, That precious bird with the agile neck, We will come to an end.

Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died. To estimate native numbers before Columbus, one thus had to multiply census figures from those times by a factor of twenty or more.

The belief that human life will continue, even if we ourselves die, is one of the underpinnings of society.

I am not the least afraid to die

All that at present can be said with certainty, is that, as with the individual, so with the species, the hour of life has run its course, ans is spent.

When time is remote enough nobody amounts to much.

It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already, with nothing much left of yourself but a hut of bones

The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.

Christopher, leaving his tea untouched, faced the two old men. He supposed they might be sixty, but it was impossible to tell with Asians; one year they were fresh with youth, and the next their skulls came through their flesh as if their corpses were eager to escape into the grave.

Yet, those who are truly honest and humble enough to admit the truth come to the end of their earthly lives acknowledging that they have barely scratched the surface.

Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all

First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever.

the beasts that perish

Our first priority is the same as it ever was," he said: "survival. Not all of us, or any of us in particular, or forever, but survival is the principal goal. It's the function of all life forms to persist for as long as possible. If nobody and nothing survives, nothing matters. And I don't know about you, but I'm deeply uncomfortable with that.