Quotes About Mortality

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

I don't live life to be remembered for anything.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

Truly life is wasted on the living.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

I wish to die painting.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

They live ill who expect to live always.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can!