Quotes About Mortality

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

People who know there is a god and people who know there isn't live in exactly the same world. Same number of hours in the day, same weather, same football results. They both love their children and die of the same diseases.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Cancer makes people think about mortality. It scares your friends and family. And many cancer patients, consciously or otherwise, try to buffer bad news with a dose of positivity.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.