Quotes About Mortality

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

You want to be doing your best work whatever field of the arts you're in because your life's going to be over all too soon, and you have to make the most of it.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

When all is said and done, I want to die exhausted and empty because I gave everything that was in me. I believe that's why we're all here: to give of ourselves to one another to help create a better world, because you can't take it with you.

Life is so, so short. The Bible says it's like a vapor.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

It really bothers me that Stephen Cannell has died. I had lunch with him about eight months before he died, and... I really liked him. I really did.

I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.

I will still probably die of aspiration-caused pneumonia. I can go along breathing well, then I might aspirate on something, develop pneumonia and be gone in a week.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Dead things should be buried and not eaten.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to have these deep moral questions that don't come up in real life.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will we then decide that death may well be an act of kindness?