Quotes About Mortality

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?...But cold morning would return, with clouds billowing out of Lightning Gorge like giant smoke, the lake below still cerulean neutral, and empty space the same as ever. O gnashing teeth of earth, where would it all lead to but to prove that the proving itself was nil...

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…But

We live to long, so long I will

And I saw how everybody dies and nobody's going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.

Qué será de nosotros cuando muramos?- Le pregunte en cierta ocasión. - Cuando uno se muere se muere, eso es todo - respondió.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…

The straight line will take you only to death.

Alzo gli occhi, ecco lì le stelle, sempre le stesse, desolazione, e sotto gli angeli che non sanno di essere angeli. E Sarina morirà. Ed io morirò, e voi morirete, e tutti moriremo e persino le stelle si spegneranno una dopo l'altra con l'andar del tempo

the cause of death is birth

the cause of death is birth or procreation

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves

Writing down these fantastic inanities actually but yet I felt I had to do it because James Joyce wasnt about to do it now he was dead

My cats Timmy & Tyke will always be at my side - They wont be jealous but make friends with Bootsie, Kewpie and Davey, and Beauty and Bob - even the little dry moth with the beady black eyes can sit on my arm forever, till we all see God when that which we love solves & melts in one Glow See? And the little mouse that I killed will devour me into its golden belly. That little mouse was God. Dante and Beatrice will be married. Please, that's enough, huh?

He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.

And as I fall to fuddled sleep I hear youth crying, as Harry Kemp heard it: I heard Youth calling in the night: 'Gone is my former world-delight; For there is naught my feet may stay; The morn suffuses into day, It dare not stand a moment still But must the world with light fulfil. More evanescent than the rose My sudden rainbow comes and goes, Plunging bright ends across the sky— Yea, I am Youth because I die!

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

Only by studying large numbers of people can we figure out, are astronauts dying at a higher rate of cancer, and what types of cancers, than other people?

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?