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Quotes About Mortality

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
~ Vince Lombardi
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
~ John Ruskin
I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
~ Joan Didion
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
~ Samuel Butler
I'm not afraid to die.
~ Vivien Leigh
We're all going to die.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
~ Vivien Leigh
Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
~ Nicholas M. Butler
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
~ Joy Williams
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
~ Don Rickles
Fighting lives and dies; you can't fight forever.
~ Johny Hendricks
One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.
~ Leonora Carrington
It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.
~ Dean Ornish
Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.
~ Charles Duhigg
I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'Would you be proud to die this way?' And that's my reminder to continue to treat people well and love people, and if I took my last breath right now, would I be happy with who I am?
~ Jordan Fisher
I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.
~ Jennifer Connelly
Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
~ Todd Akin
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
~ Chuck Feeney
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.
~ Richelle Mead
Your goal is to take years off people's lives, but not like this.
~ Richelle Mead
Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order. I suppose I should have been reassured, then, that I was out here assisting with numero uno, but the whole situation just made me feel…well, sleazy. And coming from me, that was something.
~ Richelle Mead
In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according
~ Rick Atkinson