Quotes About Mortality

Y helo aquí: en un estado indeporable, el escarabajo muerto en el sendero resplandece bajo el sol. El tiempo de una mirada basta para pensar en él: no le ha ocurrido nada importante, parece. Lo importante, dicen, es lo que nos atañe a nosotros. La vida, pero solo nuestra, o la muerte, pero también sólo nuestra, una muerte que así goza de su obligada primacía.

Å»ycie, cho?by i dÅ'ugie, zawsze bÄ™dzie krótkie.

We read the letters of the dead like helpless gods, but gods nonetheless, since we know the dates that follow. We know which debts will never be repaid.

De vreugde van het schrijven. De macht van vereeuwiging. De wraak van een sterfelijke hand.

Tera?niejsza my?l francuska o ?mierci jest dla mnie wyj?tkowo sztuczna, jak z reszt? wszystkie inne mementa mori. Stanowi? one jeden przyk?ad wi?cej, jak dalece my?li nasze s? nam obce. To wa?kowanie ?mierci wykazuje jedynie, ?e nie jeste?my w stanie jej zasymilowa?; albowiem ona - gdyby?my naprawd? wyczuli jej obecno?? - musia?aby odebra? nam sen i apetyt; ale nie przeszkadza nam nawet w chodzeniu do kina.

Ein Mensch stirbt. Und? Nichts weiter. Der Wind weht weiter. Die Elbe quasselt weiter. Die Straßenbahn klingelt weiter.

Als sich nach hundert Jahren ein Regenwurm durch ihre beiden Gräber fraß, merkte er gar nicht, dass hier zwei verschiedene Menschen begraben waren. Es war dieselbe Erde. Alles dieselbe Erde.

A man dies... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

Emmi sprach zu Hillegonda vom Tod, um ihr die Nichtigkeit des Lebens zu beweisen, und sie führte sie in die hohen dunklen Kirchen, um ihren Sinn auf die Ewigkeit zu lenken, aber die kleine Hillegonda schauderte vor dem Tod und fror in den Kirchen.

I'm going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I'll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

So then, what do you believe in? Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous.

I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of eighty is left in a room with two eighteen-year-old cocktail waitresses nothing happens.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Eternity is awful long time, especially towards the end.

Tant que l'homme sera mortel, il ne sera jamais décontracté.

O'Rouke'un orada bir bira içerken olanlar?n bir muhasebesini yapmaya çal??t?m. Ä°ÅŸler kar???kt?. Sokrates intihar etmiÅŸti... Ya da öyle olduÄŸunu söylüyorlard?. Ä°sa öldürülmüÅŸtü. Nietzsche ise delirmiÅŸti. EÄŸer yukar?da biri varsa bile kimsenin bunu bilmesini istemiyor gibiydi.

Nadie rezará un kaddish por Weinstein Tan poco tiempo por delante, pensó, y tantas cosas por hacer.