Quotes About Mortality

Truques insistentment a moltes portes però ja saps que no hi haurà resposta. Doncs bé, que cadascú recullo el seu cadàver i, si pot, miri de fer-se un enterrament digne, presentable.

Death doesn't frighten me, except to make me feel that life is ephemeral.

It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

You know what? Forget what I just said. You're already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living. That is when you get to die. Not now.

I was going to die and it was taking forever.

You know what? Forget what I just said. You're already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living.

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this...as opposed to some other way? ...If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person.

You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living.

I wanted her to know, from the moment she heard my voice, that I was dying. I delivered a salutation so craven, so wretched, that it fell through language like pebbles. Hello.

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway.

Quizá no viva dentro de una historia importante, quizá sea tan solo un personaje secundario pero, para un hombre que afronta el final de su vida, cualquier perspectiva es preferible a la de desaparecer para siempre

As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".

Nu puteam crede c? sunt ?i eu asemenea celorlalte mii de muritori neferici?i, care iubesc ?i uit?, ?i mor f?r? s? socoteasc? nimic etern, nimic definitiv.

Lo, none is allowed to take his goods with him, Lo, none who departs comes back again!

La Beauté c'est la Mort.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

The dead are noble, the living worthless.

Agissez comme si votre mort était pour demain, mais accomplissez vos devoirs comme si vous deviez vivre l'éternité.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.