Quotes About Mortality

My mum was a fixed point in my universe who was never going to grow old or die; she was always going to be there. And when she got sick, I was on the road all the time, I wasn't at home much, there was a lot of pressure. It was an awful time, and when she died, it was like your world falls apart.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Rogues, would you live forever?

No blessing lasts forever.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.

Life is so fragile.

I'm not frightened of death.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.

Life was something Dad enjoyed to the fullest. He put some tough years on himself. He probably would have had another 10 years to live if he hadn't been so hard on himself. But there again, he sure did live while he was here.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

I perceive I will die confected in the very stench of farts

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.