Quotes About Mortality

Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, … W. B. YEATS, "Sailing to Byzantium

Fui a vivir al bosque porque quería vivir despierto, enfrentarme tan sólo a los hechos esenciales de la vida y aprender lo necesario para no verme obligado, cuando estuviera postrado en mi lecho de muerte, a reconocer que no había vivido.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

Did you think I was immortal?

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

Chloe said the first thing that popped into her head., "I don't sleep with dead guys..."Luca gave her an amused look. "Good. I'm not dead. Never have been.... I'm immortal.

My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Fear of death is worse than death itself.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.