Quotes About Mortality

I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled.

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swellAnd the profit and loss.

Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Get up rejoicing in a day that someone missed. While you slept someone gasped a final sigh and slipped from time into eternity without seeing this day. But you are still here. This is God's gift to you. From the God who cares enough to give the very best, He gave you today. Enjoy it. It is yours. There will never be another moment like this one.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Zbudzi?em si? o tej mrocznej godzinie, która zaczyna beznadziejny jesienny dzie?. (...) To jest godzina podliczania kasy ?yciowej, godzina codziennego obrachunku. Kiedy? ludzie podsumowywali si? o pó?nocy, przed ci??kim za?ni?ciem, teraz bij? si? w piersi nad ranem, obudzeni ?oskotem zdychaj?cego serca.

Z?o jak ciemno??. Trwa wiecznie. A dobro to rozb?ysk, to nietrwa?e zwyci?stwo nad ciemno?ci?. Dobro jest ?miertelne.

I'll start dying meticulously wisely optimistically without wasting time

From Gold gold bars and gold ingots bare their teeth the skulls keep silent the sockets speak

Quand notre activité se termine, quand notre vie est finie, alors, il faut mourir. Il faut comprendre la mort.

I enter a time of much peril, and am more likely to fail and die than succeed and live." "Those who succeed and those who fail are both destined to die.

I don't know the sutras. I can't console Yamada's spirit by chanting sutras. But I've been thinking a lot, and here's what I think. I've thought about how much Yamada didn't want to die. . . . No, to tell the truth, I've thought about how much he didn't want to be killed. There's no denying that Yamada was killed.

When the lungs finally empty of air and begin to fill with the sweetness of heaven's breath, one will realize in that instant that thought they have existed before, only in that moment will they truly have begun to live.

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.

We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be...

They are forever, a brief and mortal forever, a forever that will grow into their bones and be held inside them after it ends, intact, indestructible.

Irgendwo hab ich gelesen, dass das letzte Wort auf der Black Box eines jeden abgestürzten Flugzeugs, das Letzte, was der Pilot sagt, wenn er weiß, dass er sterben wird, 'Mama' ist. Wenn dir mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit die ganze Welt und das ganze Leben entrissen wird, ist dieses Wort das Einzige, was dir bleibt.

My granddad was after dying the month before that, of a stroke. That took him four days. Life seems like a big thing when it takes four days for all of it to leave a man. When it's gone in a few sec- and, it looks awful small all of a sudden. We don't like to face up to that, but the animals know it. They've no notions about their dying. It's a little thing, only, you'd get it done in no time. All it takes is one nip from a fox.

Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now so will you be.…

Life feels like a big thing when it takes four days for all of it to leave a man. When it's gone in a few seconds, it looks awful small all of a sudden. We don't like to face up to that, but the animals know it. They've no notions about their dying. It's a little thing, only; you'd get it done in no time. All it takes is one nip from a fox. Or a hay baler, or a propane tank.

How ironic it was that mortals, who had the least time of all, were willing to waste so much of it away from the people they love.