Quotes About Mortality

the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.

Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay

Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.

thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past:

He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.

But Uncle Gavin says it don't take many words to tell the sum of any human experience; that somebody has already done it in eight: He was born, he suffered and he died.

And then, life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.

Recordaba que mi padre solía decir que la razón de vivir era prepararse para estar muerto durante mucho tiempo.

Any live man is better than any dead man.

the long sleep that outlasts love

Show me the man what aint going to die, bless Jesus.

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man's] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. And

Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.

Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à rester mort très longtemps.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

Un hombre vivo es mejor que un hombre muerto, pero ningún hombre vivo o muerto es mucho mejor que otro hombre vivo o muerto.