Quotes About Mortality

My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

I certainly don't hope to live forever, but on the other hand, I'm not reckless.

Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

It will eventually be discovered that the more you sleep, the healthier you are. Which means you'll really be at your healthiest when you pass away.

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a heaven or afterlife. I believe that once I die, that's it.