Quotes About Mortality

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone "This Man Died from Living Too Much."

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

He never looked great but he's dreadful now, face thin and eyes staring like you see in cartoons of mad imams and hunched over. If that's what God does to you you should pick your friends more carefully.

There were human faces among the angels and demons, mortals among the immortals, flesh amidst the stones. He strained his eyes to quarter the fluted, sculpted masonry. There they were. They were not so hard to find now that he knew what to look for. "Hello!" he called.

Somos tan egocéntricos que nos creemos la medida de todas las cosas, pero el tiempo nos arrebatará todo lo que somos, todo lo que tenemos, todo lo que llegaremos a construir.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Here's tae us,' Cameron said. 'Wha's like us?' Collins added. 'Might just leave it there,' Rebus said, unwilling to finish the toast. But the words echoed in his head anyway. Gey few, and they're aw deid …

There is no medicine to be found for a life which has fled.

Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

Saying of the Prophet Death Die before your death.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)

Desafortunado Considérate desafortunado únicamente si comienzas a fabricar ataúdes y la gente deja de morir.

Como el azúcar no es arsénico, muchas tumbas están llenas.

Dicho del Profeta Dormir El sueño es el hermano de la muerte.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Detto del Profeta Dormire Il sonno è il fratello della morte.

Pobre avaro, donde quiera que vaya, él persigue alimentos, y la muerte lo persigue a él. (Saadi)

The candle burned the moth: But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

Muerte Si es un buen hombre, la muerte será una liberación; Si es uno malo, liberará a otros de él.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.