Quotes About Mortality

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

50, 000-63, 000 individuals in the United States and 19, 000-25, 000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.

Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Well, there's nothing hereafter. We are even madder than the fools who kill themselves for a woman. When the earth splits to pieces in space like a dry walnut, our works won't add one atom to its dust.

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breathe, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives--transitoriness and oblivion.

If all these people were dead, this festivity would be extremely agreeable.

Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy, continued Lucky. The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.

Il tempo è ciò in grazia del quale ogni cosa, in ogni momento, diventa nulla nelle nostre mani.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

It isn't just the dying part; it's the thought of the day coming when I will have already been dead five, ten, two hundred years. All those centuries piling on top of me, like so many fallen trees. The fact that I will neither know nor care is of little comfort because I'm not, as yet, dead. The only cure for the fear of death is death.

The thought that this happened and then this happened and then this and this and this, the relentless march of event and emotion tied together simply because day follows day and turns into week following week becoming months and years reinforces the fact that the only logical ending for chronological order is death.

It strikes me that the physical details of the dying body are as intimate and predictable as those of the body making love.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by