Quotes About Mortality

Life, that series of increasing torments, flies faster and faster as it nears its end, the most terrifying suffering of all.

Death is more certain than tomorrow, night after day, winter after summer. So why do we prepare for tomorrow, night and winter, but not death?

you might be persuaded there is an after-life not by arguments, but by going through life hand-in-hand with somebody, and all at once that somebody vanishes there, into nowhere, and you are left standing over the abyss, staring down into it. And I have stared down into it...

Aparte de las conjeturas sobre los posibles traslados y ascensos que podrían resultar del fallecimiento de Ivan Ilich, el sencillo hecho de enterarse de la muerte de un allegado suscitaba en los presentes, como siempre ocurre, una sensación de complacencia, a saber: «el muerto es él; no soy yo».

Caio é um homem,os homens são mortais, logo Caio é mortal", parecera-lhe a vida toda muito lógico e natural se aplicado a Caio, mas certamente não quando aplicado a ele próprio.

He aqui como acabo mi vida. Nos moriremos y no quedara nada de nosotros. Por que tenemos que pecar, pues?

Only one step across that line, which reminds on the boundary that separates living from the dead, and then there's uncertainty, torture and death.

We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend … I'll … Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible." He

Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was something in this life I did not and do not understand.

When during those first days he remembered that he would have to die, he said to himself: "Well, what of it? So much the better!

Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him all his life correct only as regards Caius, but not at all regards himself. In that case it was a question of Caius, a man, an abstract man, and it was perfectly true, but he was not Caius, and was not an abstract man; he had always been a creature quite, quite different from all the others.

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

Though murdered kings, like all dead men, lie quiet and unoffending in the ground, they rot and spread contagion in men's minds.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

I don't want to be a star, merely dying.

I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I'm old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering comes and Starts to climb I pray for courage At the end To see death coming As a friend

As he died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap.

We are so lightly here. It is in love we are made. In love we disappear.

No soy un santo ni un asesino; no amo ni mato. Hago el amor y arranco las alas de las moscas.

Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

I just have a slight fear of being a tiny speck in the infinite cosmic void.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.