Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

Unlike other animals, all of which are undoubtedly oblivious to their eventual demise, humans are fully aware that their time on Earth is limited. This is a reality that for most individuals is difficult if not impossible to bear.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I always know I can die at any moment.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.