Quotes About Mortality

Stars have their moments then they die.

I have erred, and so I must atone. I lived when I should have died, and so I must become Immortal." – Oath of the Immortals

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

She swung her hair back from her face and eyed me sullenly, now the perfect teenager. Infant to child to teen in one day. With any luck she'd be dead of old age before we reached the clearing.

Death is not something I like to play guessing games with.

Light is a comfort, a human thing, and it pleases me. It reminds me I'm mortal.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Civilizations are mortal" is the greatest comfort for someone alive today.

Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness.

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. [last words]

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one.

And now, at length, in my declining years, I am seeking a corner in which to eke out the remainder of my miserable existence, while at the present moment I am enjoying the hospitality of a neighbour of your acquaintance.

Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandfather!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss?

At last; something must kill a man.

The best photo you keep as your pride will one day be the carrier of RIP when you're gone.