Quotes About Mortality

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.

To a dying person you can repeat yourself forever. They don't care. Just so they can still hear you talking.

The sight of a coffin going into the ground can effect a great change of heart—all at once you find you are not so disappointed in this person who is dead—but what the sight of a coffin does for the mind in its search for the truth, this I don't profess to know.

And he'd thought he was going to gorge himself. It was bursting time again. You great big infant. That you could still believe that it could go on forever. Maybe now you've got a better picture of what's up. Well, let it come. I know what's up. Let it come. Eat breakfast and go. This is amazing moment. It's over

but because no evidence had ever been offered Sabbath to persuade him that the dead were anything other than dead. To talk to them, admittedly, was to indulge in the most defensible of irrational human activities

Tu?i già không ph?i là má»™t tr?n chi?n; tu?i già là má»™t cuá»™c th?m sát

what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration.

Nobody beloved gets out alive.

He was just someone who had grown ugly, old, and embittered, one of billions.

He pronounces "death" like "debt.

Pills and pain. Aldomet for my blood pressure and Zantac for my gut. A to Z. Then you die.

Il coula sans venir voir le coup, sans jamais pressentir l'issue, avide au contraire de s'assouvir encore, mais il ne se réveilla pas. Arrêt cardiaque. Il n'était plus. Affranchi de l'être, entré dans le nulle part, sans même en avoir conscience. Comme il le craignait depuis le début.

This is aging, pure and simple, the self-destroying hilarity of the last roller coaster.

La vida es un breve periodo de tiempo durante el que estamos vivos.

I don't think you ever gave isolation a real shot. It's the best preparation I know of for death.

In my experience the direction of life is toward incoherence—precisely what you would never confront. Maybe that was the only coherent thing you could think to do: die to deny incoherence.

Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

Learn you to die!" means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.

The one thing that Jane's death should teach us is that life is precious and every day is a gift that we should treasure.

He knew then, as she knew always, that it does not matter if a wife is half fish, if a husband is all mortal. If there is love enough, then nothing—not nature, not even death itself—can come between two who love each other.