Quotes About Mortality

An accident of birth had signed her death warrant. He could mark her name off his to-do list.

Chloe said the first thing that popped into her head., I don't sleep with dead guys... Luca gave her an amused look. Good. I'm not dead. Never have been.... I'm immortal.

Alas, the question was too big for a man in the process of dying, alone and far from home.

In a great little book that he had the moral courage to publish during the First World War, Sigmund Freud traces physical heroism back to the fact that every man of intelligence knows that he must some day die, but that no man, in his innermost soul, ever believes in his own death.

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

No man is perfect but God is. What do you think?

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.