Quotes About Mortality

Cei str?ini de filosofie au toate ÅŸansele s? nu-ÅŸi dea seama c? de fapt singura preocupare a celor care i se d?ruiesc cu adev?rat este trecerea în moarte ÅŸi starea care îi urmeaz?.

But now it is time for us to leave: for me, to go to my death, and for you to go on living. Whether it's you or I who are going to a better thing is clear to no one but the god.

I am on the brink of death, while you will carry on living. The judgment of which is truly better rests only within the knowledge of God.

Death may even be the greatest of all good things for a human being - no one knows, yet people fear it as if they knew for sure that it's the greatest of bad things.

the skull always grinned because it knew it would emerge triumphant, that it would comprise the sole identity of the face long after vain baubles like lips and skin and eyes were gone.

So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn't sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!" We all have. It's called living. (Hogfather)

Nessuno ebbe animo di venire a vedere che cosa fanno gli uomini quando sanno di dover morire.

Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.

Come Rumkowski, anche noi siamo così abbagliati dal potere e dal prestigio da dimenticare la nostra fragilità essenziale: col potere veniamo a patti, volentieri o no, dimenticando che nel ghetto siamo tutti, che il ghetto è cintato, che fuori del recinto stanno i signori della morte, e che poco lontano aspetta il treno.

Non ho mai capito come allora quanto sia laboriosa la morte di un uomo.

In those days, as I was waiting fairly courageously for death, I harbored a piercing hope for everything, for all imaginable human experiences, and I cursed my preceding life, which it seemed to me I had taken little and poor advantage of, and I felt time slipping through my fingers, escaping from my body minute by minute, like a hemorrhage that cannot be stanched.

Né la morte aveva cessato di mietere

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.

Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken.

All men are greater than dead men.

Sometimes he would stare at the bare trees for so long, they would lose their radial dimensions and seem something flat, like blood smeared into the wrinkles about an old woman's eyes.

But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

Mortals simply aren't what they used to be, he said. A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can't even get you to gamble at all, even for your freedom.