Quotes About Mortality

Died from eating a Hershey bar.

Bid me come, and here I am. Shape my being, and for a short time I can move mortal air in and out of my chest. Ask me to love you, Bright Light, and you make real a dream-giver's deepest desire.

Among industrialized countries, the U.S. ranks 29th in infant survival.

A woman is four times more likely to die having a cesarean section than a vaginal birth.

Fear of dying young isn't an altogether bad thing. Sometimes it makes you try what you might otherwise delay.

It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.

She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying.

if these mortals only knew, if they had the merest understanding of the grave, and of the eternity they will spend lying in it, they would eat chocolate for breakfast, caviar for lunch, and sing arias as they slopped the pigs.

If the countess was Death, then Death was a cheat.

Only fools rush Death,' said Death

Life is fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever.

Life is fragile. Life ends. But love? Love lives forever,' she told him. "Rémi wept then, like a child. From that day, little by little, he returned to us. Love brought him back.

But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.

If wishing could make men die, there'd be nary a live one left.

If wishing could make men die, there'd be nary a live one left." As suddenly

Days seem to be their prettiest when they die? I wonder, will I?

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that...any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I would have been a dead girl walking....

But on a more visceral level: I could have died.

Funny thing about dying," Bales said, his voice contemplative. "You don't have much to lose.

Death is no problem because when we are alive we are not dead and when we are dead we don't know it. So long as you can possibly worry about it, you've got nothing to worry about.

Expect change. Accept death. Enjoy life. As Marcus Aurelius explained, the brains that got you through the troubles you have had so far will get you through any troubles yet to come.

Is today a good day to die?