Quotes about Finitude

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.

it can only be conceived as a shuttling back and forth within the bounds of finitude, while genuine unity withdraws beyond the circle of creation into the realm of the inconceivable. So "every created thing has the divine and ineffable monad, which is God himself, as its origin and its end, because it comes forth from him and ultimately returns to him".

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

that he should live on forever and not see decay.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

But why say more? All men live enveloped in whale- lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.