Quotes About Mortality

Amici o nemici che importanza ha? Il potere abbatte tutto. Sia gli onesti sia i malvagi finiscono per prostrarsi di fronte a un potere più grande di loro. Noi tutti moriamo e finiamo sottoterra.

It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die".

That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.

No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

You're mortal," he informs me. In his other hand, he's carrying an empty goblet, tipped over absently, as though he's forgotten he still carries it. "It's not safe for you here. Especially if you go around stabbing everyone.

I hope it unnerves them to know that I am lying. After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, then this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?

For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine. —William Winter

Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That's what you are, what defines you—dying.

He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

He reaches up and presses my hand to his face. ¨Its funny, isnt it, how i mocked you for your mortality when you´re certain to outlive me.¨ ¨You´re not going to die,¨ I insist. Page 289

You shouldn't let it bother you," Drew said earnestly. "That's just babble. It doesn't mean anything. None of you are going to die and you're obviously not dead. For Pete's sake.

Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. "Not everybody wakes up right after.

You're nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn't lie to yourselves, you'd cut your own throats to end your misery.

We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.

He oído que para los mortales, la sensación de enamorarse es muy parecida a la sensación de miedo. Tu corazón late rápido. Tus sentidos se intensifican. Te sientes aturdido, tal vez incluso mareado. ¿No es cierto? Explicaría mucho sobre los de tu clase si es posible confundir los dos.

You come from nothing, and it is to nothing you will return,¨ he whispers against my neck. ( judes dream ) Page 48