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Quotes About Mortality

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.
~ Franco Nero
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
~ Marina Abramovic
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
~ Zhuangzi
Rich people are afraid to die.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
~ David Bowie
I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do.
~ David Milch
We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.
~ Bernard Hopkins
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
~ Jack Huston
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.
~ James Balog
I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.
~ Leon Max
We'd like to believe that Americans live longer than most other people in the world. Sadly, that is not the case.
~ Margaret Cuomo
All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!
~ Valerie Harper
Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.
~ Anne M. Mulcahy
Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.
~ Charles Manson
I find looking forward scary because you might die.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
~ Annie Dillard
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
~ Frank Sinatra
I paint flowers so they will not die.
~ Frida Kahlo
I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
~ Fernando Botero
Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.
~ Anthony Fauci
I get panic attacks about dying, it's terrible. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my brain goes 'you're going to die, you're going to die, you're going to die.'
~ Russell Howard
Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'
~ Peter Frampton
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
~ Wes Craven