Quotes About Mortality

The tiny lines extending from the corners of his eyes were no illusion. He touched his cheek and felt a delicate dryness, a subtle stiffening. Weren't there also circles under his eyes, and even more lines around his mouth?

Ego is a brain function and as such mortal.

but death is the ultimate purpose of life.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.

There is nothing serious in mortality!

Oh death, thou hast thy sting! oh, grave, thou hast thy victory!

When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.

The fear of death is strangely mingled with the longing for repose.

Pascal: "When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.

The world is not "my idea," as Schopenhauer called it; it is a stern reality of which you and I are passing spawns.

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

They will learn and grow and love and struggle and create, and lift life up one little notch, perhaps, before they die. And when they pass they will cheat death with their children, with parental care that will make their children a little finer than themselves. Life wins.

The Egyptians enjoyed a great variety of diseases, though they had to die of them without knowing their Greek names.

Those who desire immortality must pay for it with their lives.

for every deliberate death there are thousands of indeliberate births.

Ars longa, vita brevis—art is long and time is fleeting: this is the tragedy of every great soul.

On his desk, when he died, there lay a paper on which he had written his last, and perhaps his most characteristic, sentences: "There is no conclusion. What has concluded that we might conclude in regard to it? There are no fortunes to be told and there is no advice to be given. Farewell.

Cuando el universo aplaste al hombre, este seguirá siendo más noble que aquel que lo mata, porque sabrá que está muriendo, mientras que de su victoria el universo no sabrá nada».

Generaciones de hombres establecen un dominio creciente sobre la tierra, pero están destinados a convertirse en fósiles en su suelo.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself!

At the end, we meet death. Just as experience begins to coördinate itself into wisdom, brain and body begin to decay.