Quotes About Mortality

Do not fear death; but stay on earth as long as you can.

I was dead for eight minutes, and much to my dismay there were no ascending rivers of light or descending angelic hosts including everybody I'd ever loved or any of those things. That wasn't happening. In fact all that was happening was just stone black darkness. I told Weir about it and he said, "well you just weren't dead enough." Always this criticism.

My moments are numbered; and if I would expose him with my dying sigh, I must not sentimentalize over my own decay.

Carved on the temple [at Delphi] were the exhortations "Know yourself" and "Nothing too much," mottoes with a similar meaning: You are only human, so don't try more than you are able (or you will pay the price). A recurring theme in Greek myth is the man or woman who loses sight of human limitations and acts arrogantly and with violence, as if immortal. And pays a terrible price.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

If a man overdoses on Viagra, how do they get the casket lid shut?

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.

Los sortes son el método principal para comunicarnos con el mundo inmaterial, más allá de las propias experiencias sensoriales. La idea es que conectamos con el gran fondo colectivo de la humanidad, que supera la vida corriente y mortal de cada uno. Resucitamos el cementerio del pensamiento humano de todos los tiempos. Se supone que es así como funciona, cómo las preguntas encuentran sus respuestas, todo es cuestión de energía. Arquetipo y energía.

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

non fui, fui, non sum, non curo—" I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.

A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

It is easier to die than to remember.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal.

The dying does not amount to much ... it is the thinking about it that hurts.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement?

When you're sick, you're not thinking 24 hours a day about your suffering, about dying. You want to talk and laugh and think about other things. In the midst of trying to live your life normally, the fear and dread, the realization that it might all end, rises up inside of you.

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.