Quotes About Mortality

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case.

It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

Everyone is born, and has a death date. The days in between are meant to live, which is why I am not afraid of anyone.

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

You're either living or you're dead.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

When you dead, you dead.