Quotes About Mortality

My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom.

Most people do not die, they cease to exist. In order to die, you first have to live. Signed: God

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.

death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

I prepare for death by living.

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo ..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

Unser Leben ist uns nur für einen Moment geliehen. Niemand weiß, wann der Engel an unsere Tür klopft und die Schuld einfordert.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Where's the romance in life? Tell somebody your epitaph and what do you get? Jokes.

The dead won't bother you, it's the living you have to worry about.

Ferdinand: Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young.Bosola: I think not so; her infelicitySeemed to have years too many.

Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,Since o'er shady groves they hover,And with leaves and flowers do coverThe friendless bodies of unburied men.

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying; These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but his time. Survey our progress from our birth: We are set, we grow, we turn to earth.