Quotes About Mortality

Miss Fielding had no fears of ultimate survival, even in beauty. When she passed on, she would draw after her every trailing mist of herself, effacing herself so completely that even after her death, even after her bones, which she could not help, were gone, she would be a bother to no one, would intrude on no mind.

At that time, of course, Natalie reflected with contentment, her life would be done. There would be no further fears for Natalie, no possibility of walking wrong when you were no more than a skull in a strange man´s hands.

People have to live and die somewhere, after all

Yes, Berel-Ayzik, what you say is all very well and good. But just tell us one more thing. Do they die in America like they do here? Or do they live forever?

Dying is the same all over. It's death that kills them.

Poor people were dying of cold, they were swelling up with hunger. The children were falling like flies. But it wasn't so terrible, because only the poor were dying. May God not punish me.

Thinking of the dead," says my mother, "makes you wonder about the living …

Dead bodies, I told myself, were nothing more than broken shells on a beach. It was just that in the morgue, that beach so often looked like a bad stretch of the Jersey shore.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..

Everyone owes nature a death.

we shall not fall out of this world. We are in it once and for all.')]

Our unconscious therefore does not believe in its own death; it acts as though it were immortal.

could I justify doing something with my life, my one wild and precious life, that I knew, undone, would not be missed?

Stevie Smith calling Death the only god who must come when he's called tickled you pink, as did the various ways people have said that were it not for suicide they could not go on.

Nabokov's syllogism. Other men die; but I am not another; therefore I'll not die.

Death the only god who must come when he's called

It is widely believed that although animals don't know that one day they'll die, many of them do know when they're actually dying. So at what point does a dying animal become aware of what's happening? Could it possibly be a long time before? And how do animals respond to aging? Are they completely puzzled, or do they somehow intuit what the signs mean? Are these foolish questions? I acknowledge that they are. And yet they preoccupy me.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

Death makes cynics of us all

The denial of death is self-hatred.

Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmica.

worst of all, beginning to forget, and knowing that he was forgetting. His mind, though tortured, had always been peculiarly acute: Now, by 1918 and the end of World War I, he seemed to know that his faculties were dimming, that his mind was at last becoming as weakened as his body, and that the sands were running out.