Quotes About Mortality

even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing

here I am simply trying to get into your head you think you were born you die what a pity

even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I if there's nowhere to rest at the end how can I get lost on the way?

When you honestly face the fact that the time you will have in this body and this lifetime is limited, you begin to ask yourself important questions about how you will use that time. What legacy, what gift do you wish to leave behind for others? How would you like to be remembered after you have left this life?

The combination of his traveling position, his drug intake, and his already weakened heart probably killed him.

Empires are built and will crumble; even Genghis Khan did not live forever.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Mortality rates among the crews of vessels employed in the African slave trade were comparable to those of the slaves themselves. It was not unusual for 40 percent of the crew to perish during a single voyage, most from tropical diseases against which they had no resistance. About half the sailors pressed into the Royal Navy died at sea.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

Death is in the hands of destiny and how cruel, yet Divine, it be.

Death not only takes, but gives. It makes you realise what is important.

For someone so young, I think an awful lot about mortality.

Jesse has to die in order for him to be immortalised as the young effigy that he is.

Meet not my creator will I for I am but a mere dot among dots within a dot on a black canvas of dots.

My biggest fear is not getting done that which must be done before my short life ends.

it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!

Les cygnes chantent avant de mourir. Certaines personnes feraient bien de mourir avant de chanter.

Eventually, all our graves go unattended.

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes. " Genghis paused for a moment. "Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.

All men die," Jelme went on, ignoring the outburst. "It could be tonight, next year, or in forty years, when you are toothless and weak. All you can do is choose how you stand when it comes.

We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends