Quotes About Mortality

He sits in the straight-backed chair next to the bed and lifts a cooling cup of tea. "If you die, what happens to me?" "I don't know," I say honestly. "If I die, I don't even know what happens to me.

In the end, it doesn't matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn't matter a damn bit. We're no avatars, no sons of god or man. We're only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone.

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.

Call me Mort, Sol.

Si un escritor se pone muy enfermo, todo se detiene. Si se muere, su negocio se acaba para siempre. En este sentido, la carrera de un escritor popular se parece más a la de un famoso actor, pero hasta el actor más famoso tiene un suplente. Un escritor no. Nadie puede sustituirle. Su voz personal lo es todo. Y esto es especialmente cierto en el caso de una escritor popular que ya está en proceso de ser publicado por entregas en una revista de tirada nacional.

To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.

I am merely a poet dying far from home.

If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.

You'll have to ask him in the next life," said Sol tiredly. "He's dead.

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil — or perhaps just of folly — when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die

For some reason it's as difficult, perhaps more difficult, this time. Dying should become easier with practice.

Men did then no more die by tale and by number. They might put out a weekly bill, and call them seven or eight thousand, or what they pleased; 'tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that is to say, without account.

Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before.

tis evident death will reconcile us all; on the other side the grave we shall be all brethren again.

la Universidad de Duke.10 Por ejemplo, Williams descubrió que los médicos que obtuvieron las puntuaciones más elevadas en un test de hostilidad realizado cuando todavía eran estudiantes mostraban, alrededor de los cincuenta años, un índice de mortalidad siete veces mayor que quienes habían obtenido puntuaciones más bajas.

La ansiedad y la irritabilidad crónicas vuelven a las personas más susceptibles a la acción de un amplio abanico de enfermedades, y aunque la depresión no constituya la causa directa de la enfermedad, sí que parece interferir, en cambio, en el curso de su recuperación y aumentar el riesgo de mortalidad, especialmente en el caso de los pacientes aquejados de enfermedades graves.

Isolation itself, a 1987 report in Science concluded, is as significant to mortality rates as smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and lack of physical exercise. Indeed, smoking increases mortality risk by a factor of just 1.6, while social isolation does so by a factor of 2.0, making it a greater health risk.

When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.

Mortal as I am," wrote Ptolemy, "I know that I am born for a day, but when I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself to feast me on ambrosia, the food of the gods." He

I may not have all the time I thought I had...

Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

A sensação era de viver a morte - ou pior, de nunca ter estado realmente vivo e consciente. Almas murchavam desde o início e estavam condenadas a encarar o tempo e o espaço do cotidiano.

A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.

If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So