Quotes About Mortality

Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.

Up until the moment of death, there was a 100% survival rate. Really. I wouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Pero cuando Miralles muera —pensé—, sus amigos también morirán del todo, porque no habría nadie que se acuerde de ellos para que no mueran.

vine aquí sin el permiso de los médicos. Pinches médicos, esa gente quiere que vivamos más de lo que nos corresponde...

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Oh, we're human, all right," she said. "Humans have always been very good at killing.

We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape

Elle pense qu'elle va mourir, qu'elle est jeune et qu'elle aussi, elle aurait bien aimé vivre.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.

These old Australians or Californians who spend all their days staring at the ocean without leaving their limousines, which they have turned into their panoramic childhood sites and their coffins, and who dream there, while awaiting the last wave, the one that will come from the depths of the ocean to engulf them.

An unknown individual accosts me outside a café: 'Surely you're not going to wait till you're dead to be loved? The implication of his remark: when are you going to do what you have to do to be loved? Implied beneath this: you are not loved. Hurry up and die: it's your last chance. But in another sense, the question suggests that I have to be love one way or another. And that is also a declaration of love.

We are real only by chance, and immortal without knowing it.

Avoid having power over anyone, unless it be the power of life and death.

He who has everything will keep what he has. From him who has nothing, even that will be taken away. Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide. Shrivelled anus, short-windedness, limp member, short-sightedness, angioplastied ventricle, urethral polyps - but a clear, hard head.

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonour or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Each day in the mirror I watch death at work.

Regarde, spectateur, remontée à bloc, de telle sorte que le ressort se déroule avec lenteur tout le long d'une vie humaine, une des plus parfaites machines construites par les dieux infernaux pour l'anéantissement mathématique d'un mortel.

Fashion dies very young, so we must forgive it everything.

Yeryüzünde benim için her ÅŸey bitti. Burada bana art?k ne iyilik edebilirler ne de kötülük. Ne umaca??m ne de korkaca??m bir ÅŸey kald? bu dünyada; zavall? bahts?z bir ölümlü ve Tanr? kadar kayg?s?z, telaÅŸs?z olan ben, uçurumun en dibindeyim.