Quotes About Mortality

The evening shadows made my home look as if it were dying.

Todo el mundo puede llegar hasta esa edad o más. Para ello basta con no morirse. Pero tengo entendido que los humanos viven más en cautiverio que en libertad.

The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay

Favorite food? Blues (speed). Miscellaneous likes? Birds. Professional ambition? To smash one hundred drum kits. Personal ambition? To stay young forever. There you have it, the world of Keith Moon effectively encapsulated in a few choice words. Straightforward hedonistic pleasures, cheerfully destructive tendencies, and an unattainable goal, except in the words that Townshend had just written and which Moon alone would live up/down to: 'Hope I die before I get old.

Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

That just two things we know for certain. That we're born and in a little while we die. It's what we do in the time between that matters. That's what the One Who Made Us thinks about when he decides what happens to us next.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

K.S., baby. Lesion number one. Lookit. The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death.

I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.

There was lots that could be done. But there was also nothing that could be done. My father was dying.

And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out.

As it turns out, the final frontier of freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude, and in the face of one's own mortality, the only conceivable choice is joy.

Sterven doe je niet ineens, maar af en toe een beetje, en alle beetjes die je stierf, 't is vreemd, maar die vergeet je. Het is je dikwijls zelfs ontgaan. Je zegt: ik ben wat moe, maar op een keer dan ben je aan je laatste beetje toe.

Iš ties?, aš taip nebijau, kaip tur??iau bijoti. Ir ne tod?l, kad esu tikinti. Ne d?l mžino gyvenimo. O tod?l, kad žinau, jog viskas yra laikina, viskas praeina".

As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive.

Jeg har tit nok været bange for livet, men aldrig døden.

Der er mere grund til at sørge over mit liv end over min død.

When one's dead, one's dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Life is an isle of sorrow, you live today and die tomorrow!

Sophia stood up and shouted, "Say this: say I hate everything that dies slow! Say I hate everything that won't let you help!

There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end.

SUPPOSE YOU closed this book right now and started to tell a story about your life from now until the moment you die—the moment that they throw dirt on your face and your life turns out the way it does. What would that story include?

You know, I've buried so many of my friends, I got callouses on my hands from carrying caskets. Folks my age, or who would be my age. It's tough, sometimes, just not to find people you can sit with, talk to.

I looked Death right in the face.