Quotes About Mortality

It is well known, that every government must come to a period, and that death is unavoidable to the political as well as to the animal body.

El mundo es tal vez el bosquejo rudimentario de algún dios infantil, que lo abandonó a medio hacer, avergonzado de su ejecución deficiente; es obra de un dios subalterno, de quien los dioses superiores se burlan; es la confusa producción de una divinidad decrépita y jubilada, que ya se ha muerto

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

The truth is I'm in a place without a bright side or a one best thing. I'm in a place where, honest to God, you feel you can kill your friends just by asking the names of stars.

Fear not them which destroy the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. 10:28 KJV). We should all truly love God, fear God, and be prepared to meet Him when our time comes to leave this earth and stand before Him to give an account. We never really know when our time will come to leave this life. Let's make sure we're ready!

The will to save a life is not the power to stop a death.

and that dumbass deer—sorry, that beautiful creature of God—that thing's character was drawn within the limitations of a non-sentient brain. It stood there, unmoving, as the car closed the last fifty feet on it; it just hunched there, watching Death come hurtling at it, staring at the car like, well, like exactly what it was, there's a goddamn good reason for that cliché, so maybe it was fitting that the first thing that hit the deer was the headlight.

Isn't that just like a human? Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and the experience of the billions who came before us, it's still hard to get our heads around the idea that we are going to die.

Death, becoming obsolete, and trying to make a mark before leaving the world were all themes he returned to repeatedly

If Doc can't let it go, you can always remind him that statistically a human is more likely to die from a hospital error than from a motorcycle ride.

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

Alors, ce que je dis, c'est que le cancer, c'est rien, Rakel. Tu vas mourir de honte aussi, et je te promets que ce sera pire que tout. Je veillerai personnellement à ce que toutes les saloperies que t'as faites soient étalées au grand jour, et que ce soit là tout le souvenir que tu laisseras. Tu vas crever dans ta propre merde.

Attach yourself to truth, not to me. For I may die before you, but the truth will accompany you to your death.

I quit smoking in December. I'm really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist's life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

How little we seem able to do in a lifetime—and how fast the years slip by."42

Nugent worried instead about his own mortality—about dying on a faraway battlefield without "leaving an heir behind to … represent me hereafter in the affairs of men.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

The planet, saved for another day, stokes up its slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarlet gash that take our breath away; a world at its interminable show of holy dying. And we go with it, the old gatherer and hunter. To its gaudy-day, though the contribution is small, adding our handsel of warm clay.

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.