Petrarch Quotes

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

Death is a very important part of life.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other.

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

All who are born are always dying.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

He that begins to live, begins to die.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

I'm always aware of mortality.

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.