Quotes About Mortality

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

What would happen to the dream if its dreamer was no more?

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.

Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.

Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Like sexual intercourse, death needs foreplay.

Just as you are now, so have I been; Just as I am now, so shall you be.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

À long terme, ils montent. - À long terme, je suis mort. (Le cuisinier, p. 147)

Wherefore, O Christian, accept your destiny cheerfully, and form a steadfast resolution to bear unmurmuringly the bitterness of death. For it is a great merit to yield up one's life the life every man loves so well and submit with a ready and willing mind to the pangs of death.

Calling for an end to the cold war, he said that "in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we share this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it's short.

If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

Death is the ending of all true stories.

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.

Did people come here to commit suicide? They were bound to. Cliffs, bridges, tall buildings, they were like an invitation. Just stand there, looking down, was to create an optical illusion of the ground rushing up to meet you.

Such unity and completeness of humankind was lost, the Gospel of Philip declares, in the separation of Adam and Eve. Originally Adam was androgynous, but the fall from primordial oneness allowed humankind to slip into mortality and death. The Gospel of Philip states, "If the female had not separated from the male, the female and the male would not have died. The separation of male and female was the beginning of death.

Age is real life is short. It's foolhardy to deny it. We grow up, our bodies grow frail, death is coming. There's so much I want to do! There's a whole world out there I havent seen, ppl I havent met and who havent know me. God, there 're a million books I want to read. I dont want to sleep... I want to be awake. This is my life - I want to live it