mortality Quotes

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

It is natural to die as to be born.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

The present will not long endure.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.