Quotes About Mortality

Reconozco que ésa era la preocupación que tenía cuando estaba vivo: hasta dónde podría aguantar. Porque cuando uno está vivo, quiere seguir viviendo, y eso es siempre una tentación peligrosa. En cambio, la tentación se acaba cuando uno sabe que está muerto.

Los que a sabiendas hieren y matan y torturan, se creen fieles lacayos de la muerte, pero esos imbéciles no saben que, desde tiempo inmemorial, la parquísima inmola a sus lacayos. Cuando

Después de todo la muerte es sólo un síntoma de que hubo vida.

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Because of the thinness of fashionable gowns, it was estimated that at least eighteen thousand women dropped dead of cold during the English winters.

She knew her death was near because time had begun to fold like a fan so that the past and the present rubbed together in ways that made her feel supple and porous, as if time were moving through her body and not the other way around.

Die moeilikste ding op aarde om te aanvaar, buiten jou eie verganklikheid, is jou eie middelmatigheid.' – WILLEM PRINS (Misverstand)

A group of elderly gravediggers was working to reinter them, the men's breath condensing in the cold air.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

I outlived all the men who raised me. I stayed young while they faded, and died from bullets and disease. Or old age. You forget so much. You forget them. Friends. Family. You put aside what can't be changed. Like death. Until something small and unexpected catches you.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

I once met a man who was paranoid about dying, so i shot him

Death made its own appointments, and the city morgue waited like a patient suitor for a date.

Of course, from an absurdist perspective, all deaths are a punch line: the good news is, you're born; the bad news is, you die. Life is a death sentence.

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.

marriage, children, illness, and death were life-changing events. Everything else was just ripples in the river.

Do you think you are going to live forever? Is life so long you rather rag somebody than be nice to them?

Probably everybody be nice to you if they knew you were dying," he said. "Everybody knows everybody is dying," I said. "That is why people are nice. You all die soon enough, so why not be nice to each other?

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.