Quotes About Mortality

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Hey, do you know what happens to a liar when he dies? He lies still, Jack!

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

Henry believes he knows exactly when the ninety-four-year-old woman in the neighbouring apartment dies. He hears her turn off. Until now he has not been able to distinguish her from her appliances – her washing machine, her vacuum cleaner, her radiators, her television. But the moment she gives up the ghost he detects the cessation of a noise of which he was not previously aware. A hum, was it? A whirr? Impossible to say. There is no word for the sound a life makes.

The implied premise of this passage is that life must be everlasting to be meaningful, but there is no obvious reason for thinking that. Why not draw the opposite conclusion—that the fact that life is short is our motivation for filling it with meaning? If we are keenly aware of "time's wingéd chariot,

I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story !

Gravestones tell truth scarcely fourty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.' – Browne, Urn Burial, 1658

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

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on m a dit : tu n es que cendre et poussier.On a oublié de me dire qu il s agissait de poussieres d etoiles

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For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die" Patrick Shaw-Stewart

Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything

People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.

To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and amongst those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.