Quotes About Mortality

Jacob Reckless überlebt alles. Wer wei? das besser als du? Ich bin sicher, du kannst nicht an dem Fingern abzählen, wie often er eigentlich schon hätte tot sein müssen.

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. Richard de Bury, The Philobiblon

In books, I meet the dead as if they were alive, in books I see what is yet to come … All things decay and pass with time … all fame would fall victim to oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.

Here is a small fact. You are going to die. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Men! A few nights of coughing and they see the reaper standing by their bedside.

He had never taken any interest in what came after death, either in this world or the other one. Probably just silence, silence without a single word of comfort.

We will never have the wealth of experience our immortal creators have. Yet I find comfort in the thought that this limited lifespan gives our minds, at times, refreshing freedom.

A imortalidade era digna e precisa. Certamente não necessitava de um coração.

O amor é uma armadilha muito eficiente, e a verdade mais cruel sobre a guerra é que ela o torna um risco mortal.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. - Walt Longmire

The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

The thing is, we are all, in a sense, supper. Walking, talking, breathing suppers, that's what we are. Take you, for instance. YOU are about to be eaten by ME, so that makes you supper. That's obvious. But even a murderous carnivore like myself will be a supper for worms one day. We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

You cannot fight Time itself, slay the minutes and the hours with your blade, nor wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

even across class lines that Black women and their babies are much likelier to die in childbirth because of racism/bad healthcare.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

This is why we cannot love in the common sense. Somehow with you I cannot long be trivial, and, you know, to be always beyond this mortal state would be to lose it.

Why don't we stay in love that way all our lives? Why do we turn into corpses with consciousness?

Why are we all only like mortal pieces of furniture? Why is nothing important?

Nothingness! To accept the great nothingness of life seemed to be the one end of living. All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!

Cu tine nu comunic prin simÈ›uri, ci prin spirit. De asta nu ne putem iubi în înÈ›elesul comun. AfecÈ›iunea noastr? nu este dintre acelea pe care le întâlneÈ™ti la tot pasul. ?i totuÈ™i suntem muritori de rând, È™i a tr?i unul al?turi de cel?lalt ar fi cumplit, deoarece cu tine nu pot fi carnal È™i, È™tii tu, a vieÈ›ui de-a pururi mai presus de aceasta a muritorului de rând ar însemna s-o pierzi cu totul.

Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--