Quotes About Mortality

we were alive, together, and conscious, aware of our own mortality, but thrilled by the fact of our own ridiculous existence.

HERE ARE THREE absolute truths: 1. The world is round. 2. We are all going to die. 3. No one enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

No benign deity plucks television news show hosts from their desks in the prime of life and then hastily compensates their friends and family by displays of irradiated droplets in the sky.

There is something unspeakably consoling in one's own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child and the face of yourself as a corpse. And in this moment, all the fundamental antinomies are reconciled--the sacred and the profane, the analyst and the analysand, the celebrated success and the abject failure. The pilot and the passenger. Writer and reader. Fiction and nonfiction. Past and present. And the mind that abides and the mind that is gone.

Wraiths see death in everything. They do not see things in the physical world as they appear, but as they someday will be. A person about to die might appear cadaverous, with hollow eyes and jaundiced skin; a car destined to crash will appear dented in advance. Much of the world seems decayed, a near collapse. Billboards are tattered, roads are potholed, pain is peeling, metal is rusting, buildings are crumpling. To the Restless, much of the world is already dead.

Para nosotros ningún momento es completo en sí mismo. Cada momento se ve adulterado, empañado por lo que recordamos que ha sido y lo que anticipamos que será. En cada momento de nuestra vida la flecha del tiempo nos mantiene inocentes y moribundos, y por eso creemos que somos superiores a los demás animales.

I grow into my death. My life is small and getting smaller. The world is green. Nothing is all.

That's how it always was and always will be, he thought a little bitterly. We come in with nothing, and we go out with nothing.

They kill people, and I'm a people.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.