Quotes About Mortality

A man's life will not come again, once it has slipped through his teeth. And no power on earth can bring it back. This is the mortal law. Then no longer will his bones be held together by wet sinews. Then no longer the soul flutter in his mouth. But by Death's blazing light, he is ground out and spent.

What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted by white butterflies, so many of them that if you drove too fast your tires lost their grip, and some people lost their lives, skidding on butterflies.

Death rephrases the life of everyone who's near.

It was Muriel Spark, in her novel Memento Mori: "If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Zelda is worried about the regular death that happens when you grow too old. -Henry

Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.

Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.

Death frees from the fear of dying

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

La conciencia de la muerte nos anima a vivir más

We should always be prepared for attacks by the enemy and be capable of looking into the eye of death so that death may light our path.

The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.

Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: what did you do with your life? We must all answer this question, and woe betides those who answer: I remained standing at the door.

It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.

Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.