Ludwig von Mises Quotes

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Today will die tomorrow.

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Death is an absolute marvel.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.