584 Quotes About Mortality

On voulait mourir; on ne voulait pas étouffer; la maladie dégoûte de la mort; on veut guérir, ce qui est une manière de vouloir vivre.

We cannot know everything. We cannot do everything. We are what we chose to have known. We are what we ended up doing. This condition is why you could look around and tell people apart. Time is ticking and we are all fugitives fleeing from random death. And we all flee differently. Thus, with the responsibility of choice, humanity is magical this way.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."[Letter, November 1856]

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

A life is not a waste of time

During my first semester of medical school, I cannot know how the emotional difficulty of the actions we perform on our cadavers will help us prepare for the agonizing moments we will observe in the lives of the living.

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.