Quotes About Mortality

it made me think of everything I had done. It made me weigh up my life. And it made me want to tie things up, so that next time - and I hope there will not be a next time - the next time I faced death like that, I could think: I have set me life in order.

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

Sub specie aeternitatis, she thought: In the context of eternity, this is nothing, as are all our human affairs.

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a jolly good cry And always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you jolly well die.

Remember that, she said to herself; remember that in your dealings with others—they may be dying.

Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes—I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would death be complete.

They might have pictures of skulls on the backs of their leather jackets, but in their case these were really pictures of their last X-ray rather than threats.

And thus they aged, as do all mortals. Until at last the husband found That death had opened wide its portals, Through which he entered, newly crowned.

in which he was mortally wounded by his brother-in-law, George Danthès. His death was mourned publicly by all Russia.

Dad says, At least death by mercenary is quicker. Than what? Death by aid.

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.

You watch," said Colton. "They most certainly will. Someone will mention it at my funeral. They'll say, 'We never should have made the poor boy do so much school. What a freakin' waste of his time it was.

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

1980s, when a study of Intensive Care Units revealed that "the most significant factor associated with excessive mortality was the degree of nurse-physician communication

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?

The most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.

What is death? One step further into calm and two perhaps into silence.

It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.