Quotes About Mortality

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

I don't know what's so disappointing about being alive, but I will say that the longer I'm alive, the more I appreciate not dying.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

Death is the cure for all diseases.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature mandate it. People always die because of technical problems. And every technical problem has, in principle, a technical solution.

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions that will last forever. That's real value.