Quotes About Mortality

I think back to my father, and the fact that the dead are the only extinguished lights we can never really see again.

When Death comes, I want to be ready.

Back then, I was obsessed with dying, because I secretly wanted to live forever.

What a live person can tell, being alive, would finally kill a dead person: flippancy. Therefore, one cannot, unfortunately, cling to the facts, which are too mixed up with chance and don't tell much.

Ich bin sehr müde. Einen zusammenhängenden Schlaf habe ich seit Wochen nicht gehabt. Unglaubhaft, aber ich könnt jetzt einschlafen. Kann ja nichts mehr verschieben, auch den Schlaf nicht. Ungut, übermüdet in den Tod zu gehen.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Regarde bien les arbres. Ils savent, comme nous, qu'ils doivent mourir un jour, mais ils ne pensent qu'à une chose : grandir, monter le plus haut possible.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable.

that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and

I remember [Mommie Dearest] always said, "Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead." My mother died on the morning of May 10, 1977.

Why were you born when the snow was falling? You should have come to the cuckoo's calling, Or when grapes are green in the cluster, Or, at least, when the lithe swallows muster For their far off flying From the summer dying. Why did you die when the lambs were cropping? You should have died at the apples' dropping, When the grasshopper comes to trouble, And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble, And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great I-Am. No wonder I want to make away with myself. Who wouldn't?

Njeriu duhet ta krijojë vetë castin e vdekjes, nëse duam që t'ia kursejmë vetes një fund të tmerrshëm.

The same linguistic structures that allow us to soar through time and space and model entire universes in our heads also enable us to foresee our own mortality. Language also permits us to imagine a self that isn't earthbound and a world beyond death. So far it hasn't offered a way to avoid it.

but the stupefying realization that the paparazzi who chased her car into Paris's Alma tunnel did nothing to help her. "She was still very much alive in the backseat," Harry later said, "and those same people that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her while she was dying. They just stood there and watched her die. I will never forgive them." William agreed.

Art is long and life is short.

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.

Beautiful as they are, these tidal places are often moody and strange. Sometimes you can feel the bittersweet tang of your mortality rubbing up against a beachhead of infinity

The notorious bark Libertad, which carried 560 passengers (although its legal limit was 297) lost 100 passengers on one run from China to San Francisco. Its passengers died of thirst—they had no water for the last week of the voyage—and the Libertad is frequently described by chroniclers of the passage from China as a "floating hell.

Life is short and filled with pain, and just when you start to finally get the hang of it, you drop dead.