Quotes About Mortality

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

You can die at any moment doing anything. I mean, so why not do what you love to do. If I die on game day, have a drink. Celebrate.

In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.

In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.

Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.

People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be your last moment. I was the kind of guy who would never talk to my wife on game day. Now I'm the guy who's like, 'I love you.' I want my children to know I love them because I don't know what's going to happen out there.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.

Life is temporary. We die one day. Live it up!

Whenever I am tempted to get stressed out about the spotlight, I remind myself that one day I will be long forgotten, and that I will miss it.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

We are all terminal.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.