Quotes About Mortality

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

Every time we mention the world, we must remember it is going to end.

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

What should I do if my problems aren't all solved by the time I die?

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.