Quotes About Mortality

I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!

I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

Everything that gets born dies.

There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.

All birthdays are good. You're getting closer to death. You're getting older. You can smile and laugh at it. It doesn't have to be bad.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

I started a list of all my friends who had died of AIDS, and I stopped at 78. I think about things like that, and I'm just real glad to be here.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

There's absolutely nothing glamorous about getting old.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.