Quotes About Mortality

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

In the long run we are all dead.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

I am not into this old-school way of doing things, where you kill characters, and you bring them back, and then you kill them again, and then you bring them back, and their deaths mean nothing.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word, is it as a writer that you die?'

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.

To live is to die.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.