Quotes About Mortality

I must say tonight my greatest hope is to die in my bed, at peace with the world, as an old man.

Il y a au centre africain un lac peuplé d'insectes mâles et qui ne savent que mourir à la fin du jour

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

Boys never become men, they become skeletons and skulls.

Do you seek to bribe Death?" Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.

But I've been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn't stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There's a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living.

Today I did not die. I have been let to live today and must be thankful that tomorrow I may return to work—to die.

Temer a morte, Atenienses, não é mais que julgar ser sábio,sem o ser, porque é imaginar que se sabe o que se não sabe. É que ninguém sabe o que é a morte nem se, por acaso, ela será para o homem o maior dos bens. Mas temem-na como se soubessem com segurança que é o maior dos males.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?

The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

when a man comes near to the realization that he will be making an end, fear and care enter him for things to which he gave no thought before. The tales17 told about what is in Hades—that the one who has done unjust deeds18 here must pay the penalty there—at which he laughed up to then, now make his soul twist and turn because he fears they might be true.

What is probable, gentlemen, is that in fact the god is wise and that his oracular response meant that human wisdom is worth little or nothing, and that when he says this man, Socrates, he is using my name as an example, as if he said: This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless.

There is no sameness of existence, but the new mortality is always taking the place of the old. This is the reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of fame. For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have invented.

Pues nadie conoce la muerte, ni siquiera si es, precisamente, el mayor de todos los bienes para el hombre, pero la temen como si supieran con certeza que es el mayor de los males.

I am afraid that other people do not realize that the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. Now if this is true, it would be strange indeed if they were eager for this all their lives and then resent it when what they have wanted and practiced for a long time comes upon them.

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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Because to the mortal creature, generation is a sort of eternity and immortality,' she replied; 'and if, as has been already admitted, love is of the everlasting possession of the good, all men will necessarily desire immortality together with good: Wherefore love is of immortality.