Quotes About Mortality

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I know I will die in a car crash.

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die. If you go outside, you will die. If you play sports, you will likely die. That's what I was getting at home.

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.

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

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70.

We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.

It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.

Every day is a good day above ground, and especially being able to play metal and being able to your craft and everything. You've gotta respect that, because it's something that can be taken away from you really quick.

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.