Quotes About Mortality

Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and some of the other things.

As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Why long for death's marriage bed which human beings all shun? Death comes soon enough and brings an end to everything.

Necio es el mortal que, creyéndose siempre feliz, se abandona al placer: la fortuna, cual furiosa delirante, salta aquí y allá, y a ninguno concede perpetua dicha

Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.

One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer

Look this way! Death is a debt all mortal men must pay; Aye, there is no man living who can say If life will last him yet a single day. On, to the dark, drives Fortune; and no force Can wrest her secret nor put back her course….

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

O Zeus, perché hai dato ai mortali indizi chiari dell'oro che risulti falso, mentre nel corpo degli uomini non vi è impresso alcun segno con cui riconoscere il malvagio?

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

Dare death with me. Death stands by you anyway.

But if any far-off state there be Dearer than life to mortality, The hand of the Dark hath hold thereof, And mist is under the mist above; So we are sick for life, and cling On earth to this nameless and shining thing, For other life is a fountain sealed, And the deeps below are unrevealed, And we drift on legends for ever.