Quotes About Mortality

Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.

We're dying from the moment we're born

Her grandfather was dying of old age, Bertie thought. Worn out. Not cancer or a heart attack or an accident or a catastrophe. Old age seemed like a hard way to go.

Pamela wanted to die with her own hips and her own teeth; beyond that she didn't have much of a goal.

but nonetheless once you hit fifty there was no escaping the fact that you had a one-way ticket on a nonstop service to the terminus.

What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things—death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Theo wondered if those people who were destined to die young had some kind of premonition of the shortness of the hours and that gave their life an intensity, a seriousness like a shadow.

There was something to be said for dying before you ended up in incontinence pads, watching an endless loop of reruns of Friends.

Life's too short," she said. There were days when Jackson thought life was too long.

I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her," Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic because I'm dying. "Isn't

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.

If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.

But, reader, we must not forget that Kind Phillip loved the queen and that without her, he was lost. This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.

Like fire, the passage of time devoured all things, even a man's life, until it was utterly consumed.

But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved?

WELCOME TO THE UNDERWORLD! MORTALS EVERYWHERE ARE DYING TO GET IN

You die twice. Once when your heart stops beating and again when your name is spoken for the last time.

The death rate for that is 8.8 women per 100,000.12 As I've mentioned before, continuing a pregnancy is 12 to 14 times as potentially fatal as ending it. That means abortion is always potentially lifesaving for a pregnant woman. (And getting more so, because the maternal mortality rate is rising in the US even as it is falling around the world.)

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The old man is spread out on the worm buffet and

Ain't no one ever told you yet? I recon I thought you've all figured out. - What? - That all this stuff about happy-endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death.

He put down his roll and reached over and took her gnarled hand, stroking the back of it with his thumb. I'm trying to tell the child something only you and I can understand. How good it is to be old. I watched her face go from being startled by his gesture to being pleased that he had somehow joined her side against me. Then she seemed to remember. She drew back her hand. We'll die, she said. Yes, he said. But we'll be ready. The young ones never are.

Death, I suspect, will likely be unsatisfying because I will no longer be present to feel the achievement thereof.