Quotes About Mortality

What wisdom is there in keeping a person alive above all considerations ? Why should doctors keep restarting someone's heart if they're never going to get well?

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

All my life I have been trying to improve my German. At last my German is better —but now I am old and ill and don't have long to live. Soon I will be dead, with better German.

105 years old: she wouldn't be alive today even if she hadn't died.

Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.

The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.

Él no se mató, no. Murió como..., como todo el mundo un día muere.

Tinha um velho que morreu agarrando o pinto, acho que ficou com medo da morte, o pobrezinho, tanto medo e na hora do medo agarrou o pinto. Foi enterrado assim.

A morte combina muito com latim, não tem coisa que combine tanto com latim como a morte.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

As I just told Miriam, we'll die a hundred times before the day finally comes if we give in to fear.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

The poor Slavs during this period were still more invaded than invading, harassed as they were from the east by the mounted nomads and from the north by the Swedish slave-traders. The mortality in the slave trade at that time was even greater than in the later African slave trade with America. About nine Slavs died on the way for every one who was sold as a slave. Yet they continued to increase in population.

Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.

There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.

Y lo peor es que hiciste que se disculpara. [...] La hiciste pedir perdón por su enfermedad. Por su valor. Hiciste que le diera vergüenza morirse.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

When our parents are alive, they stand in front of us, blocking our view of death. But once they've gone, we find ourselves at the cliff edge.

El hombre no conoce la dignidad de la desesperación definitiva sino es con el indigno motivo de haber de morir; con sus juguetes de la ciencia, del arte, del progreso (la más estúpida de sus ideas), de la reforma social, que le parecen tan graves y que adula y realza utilizando el contraste con la frivolidad de las preocupaciones femeninas puestas en el bello vestir, lo que solamente pide él es no morir nunca. Es un entretenido y un longevista y por lo tanto un ente sin pasión.

Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas