Quotes About Mortality

Wohin mit all dem, wenn ich tot bin? Ich glaube, ich hätte lieber die Erinnerung eines Grashalms am Straßenrand, an dem alle vorübergehen, eines Grashalms, den nie wieder einer sieht, bis er eines Tages abgemäht oder ausgerupft wird. Oder einfach vertrocknet.

Doing time in a Disposable Body.

We're all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we're lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again.

Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

life is simply a vacation from the infinite

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. Deep down, the dream-victim had said, You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.

on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing. The sight brings on an oppressive sadness that no car about to hit you or water about to drown you can match. The feeling is truly unbearable.

They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud .

Motivul pentru care moartea se Å£ine atât de aproape de via?? nu e necesitatea biologic? - e invidia. ViaÅ£a este atât de frumoas?, încât moartea s-a îndr?gostit de ea, o dragoste geloas?, posesiv?, care apuc? tot ce poate.

Por qué iba a someterse Dios a algo así? ¿Por qué no dejar la muerte para los mortales? ¿Por qué tuvo que ensuciar lo que era bello, estropear la perfección? -Por amor...

Día tras día el mundo me ha empequeñecido y hoy es el mundo el que se empequeñece en mí. Así es. La muerte triunfa poco a poco. Nos vamos acostumbrando. Nos vamos acostumbrando a la muerte.

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

When you die, there is nothing--only a life that will be forgotten. -from Gathering Ashes

Stop. I don't like it. I don't like having people die.