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Mortality Quotes
"Whether you like it or not, your life is passing away."
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"The theme of the book is simple: a man is dying: you feel him sinking throughout the book; his thought and his memories pervade the whole with greater or lesser distinction (like the swell and fall of uneven breathing), now rolling up this image, now that, letting it ride in the wind, or even tossing it out on the shore, where it seems to move and live for a minute on its own and presently is drawn back again by grey seas where it sinks or is strangely transfigured."
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"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"
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"Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads."
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"Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness."
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"We can learn so much about the living, according to how they treat their dead. And we can see the true colours of people coming out, when we observe how they act and react, to the circumstances that come about after the death of a loved one. Lastly, we learn about the things most important in our lives, when we experience the loss called death. It is extraordinary how death can give back so much to life and to the living."
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"Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp."
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"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."
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"When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow."
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"The thin line between life and death is still under construction."
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"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."
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"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."
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"The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world."
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"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."
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"All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari " believing the worldly life to be real)."
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"You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!"
"Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion."
"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."
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