Impending Death Quotes

• There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

  Roger Ebert

  Boredom, Existential

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• Así como un día bien aprovechado trae un sueño feliz, así la vida bien aprovechada trae una muerte feliz.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspiración, Vida, Felicidad

  Código Trivulziano 281

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• Un día bien aprovechado trae consigo un sueño feliz.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivacional, Feliz, Muerte

  Código Trivulziano 281

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• El informe de mi muerte fue una exageración.

  Mark Twain

  Gracioso, Muerte, Exageración Es

  Citado en el N.Y. Journal, 2 de junio de 1897. Estas palabras iban precedidas de "James Ross Clemens, de St. Louis, primo mío, estuvo gravemente enfermo hace dos o tres semanas en Londres, pero ya está bien. La noticia de mi enfermedad surgió a raíz de la suya". La cita suele aparecer como "Los informes sobre mi muerte han sido muy exagerados". Mucho antes (5 th Of July de 1863), en una carta de Twain a la Territorial Enterprise, aparecía lo siguiente: "Anoche circuló por la ciudad la noticia de que Charles Strong, Esq.

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• Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

  Jhonen Vásquez

  Zest, Death And Dying, Persons

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez,

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• We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.

  Michelle Richmond

  Children, War, Pride

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• He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn’t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Believe, Reality, Live Your Life

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• There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.

  George Orwell

  Safety, Soul, Together

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1256, Penguin UK

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• We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

  Courtney Summers

  Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner

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