Quotes About Mortality

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.

I think as you get older, you realize football as a whole isn't guaranteed.

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Johann Kleist: If something is waiting for me in that midnight thicket, it can have me soon enough. To be claimed by that primal darkness, to be swallowed up, to cease: the thought of it is bliss to me.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

Every Clayr is given the gift to See some portent of her death, though not the death itself, for no human could bear that weight. Almost twenty years ago I Saw myself and your little dog, and in time I realized that this was the vision that foretold my final days.

Everyone and everything has a time to die.

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.

I could go into Death?' asked Clariel. 'Anyone can go into Death,' said Mogget, with a smirk. 'Coming back again is the difficult part.

Anyone can go into Death," said Mogget, with a smirk. Coming back again is the difficult part.

Affection is the mortal illness of lonely people.

The thing with dying was to try to not die and make death take you with surprise.

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.

On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

the true subject of science fiction is death, not life. It will all end. The totality of it.