Quotes About Mortality

We all die. Nearly half of us die of cancer (38 percent of females, 45 percent of males).

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy--but I had none of it. I always saw the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.

This realization is the first of many awakenings that have shaped my understanding of what religion means: Religion is our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die.

WE ONLY KNOW two things for certain: "I am," and "I will die.

The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

Life and Death are just things you do when you're bored. - Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)

We are already dead but not yet in the ground. - Fear

for we see Abraham the readier to acknowledge himself but dust and ashes the nearer he approaches to behold the glory of the Lord

Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.

The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner

By 1853 New York alone had 86 studios. The enormous demand for family pictures was due partly to the high nineteenth-century mortality rates, especially among children. "Secure the shadow ere the substance fade, Let Nature imitate what Nature made," ran the advertising slogan.

They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up." John Casey, Spartina

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

How frail the bloom, how short the stay That terminates us all! Today we flourish green and gay, Like leaves tomorrow fall.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

The beam caught the bowed head of Angel. He glanced up into Bobby Sciorra's eyes and smiled. Sciorra looked puzzled for a moment and then his mouth opened in slow-dawning realization. He was already turning to try to locate Louis when the darkness seemed to come alive around him and his eyes widened as he realized, too late, that death had come for him too.

As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.

If cats could count, they'd start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

In the end, we'll all face oblivion.

he would envy each and every living thing its freedom, even if it was only the freedom to die.