Quotes About Mortality

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.

O kadar az yaÅŸad?m ki sanki hiç ölmeyecekmiÅŸim gibi düÅŸünme eÄŸilimindeyim; insan hayat?n?n bu kadarc?k bir ÅŸeye indirgenmesi gerçek olamazm?? gibi geliyor bana; elinizde olmadan, er ya da geç bir ÅŸey olacak diye hayal ediyorsunuz. Büyük hata. Bir hayat pekâlâ da boÅŸ ve k?sa olabilir. Günler ne bir iz ne bir an? b?rakmadan sefil bir ÅŸekilde ak?p gider; ve sonra bir anda duruverir.

As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail.

Should I just die? The decision struck me as premature.

Chacun d'entre nous a beau avoir une certaine capacité de résistance on finit tous par mourir d'amour, ou plutôt d'absence d'amour, c'est au bout du compte inéluctablement mortel.

In contemporary Western society, death is like white noise to a man in good health; it fills his mind when his dreams and plans fade. With age, the noise becomes increasingly insistent, like a dull roar with the occasional screech. In another age the sound meant waiting for the kingdom of God; it is now an anticipation of death. Such is life.

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.

What would it be like when I was fifty, sixty, older? I'd be no more than a jumble of organs in slow decomposition.

Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oubliées, la nouvelle année est encore loin ; la proximité du néant est inhabituelle.

Visas pasules kaps?t?s nesen mirušie cilv?ki savos z?rkos turpin?ja netrauc?ti sadal?ties un pamaz?m p?rv?rsties par ?inde?iem.

Elementi savremene savesti nisu prilago?eni smrtnoj prirodi ?ovekovoj.

hän on vain kuolevainen, aivan kuten me kaikki olemme tähän saakka olleet, tilapäinen molekyylien yhdistelmä. Sanokaamme, että tässä tapauksessa yhdistelmä oli viehättävä, mutta se ei ole sen pysyvämpi kuin huurrekuvio, joka katoaa ilman lämmetessä...

Fox se tumbó a mi lado y suspiró suavemente. Iba a morir junto a mí, y lo sabía; ya era un perro viejo; se durmió casi enseguida.