Quotes About Mortality

The veil of illusion cannot be overcome by mortals.

The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.

There is no death without life, but there can be life without death. Seems like death depends on life. Simply put, life goes on.

Those who claim that life begins at forty, they can't recall history, that Alexander became and died as the greatest without reaching this peak age. They also do not know those who die in their childhood.

To the angel of death, we are all like chess pieces on the chessboard.

We are one with the angels, even though you claim that you are just a mere mortal.

What is the value of cultivating a bad reputation in the universe; if the death of the flesh is certain?

You are offered a chance to live and enjoy yourself in this world, but sooner or later, death will come knocking on your door.

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.

Picture or no picture, people will keep killing each other using methods old and new—day after day, year after year, centuries of killing—until one way or another we're all dead, and all the guns and cameras of the world are just so much garbage lying in the dirt.

Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.

like stars and starstuff born to live, to blaze, and die.

Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

Death's the discarder.

Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.' 'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.' Elena flinched. 'Elena.' Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness—absolute power is a corruption.

What is it like to be mortal?" Startled, she took a second to think, to consider. "Life is much more immediate. When you have a time limit, every moment gains an importance that an immortal will never know.

En ese caso, ella te matará a ti. Te convertirá en mortal.