Quotes About Mortality

He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the morning the sun will come through the blinds and their coffee will be served. From The Reckoning

You're a long time dead. So do it NOW!

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

What if you wake up only to die that day?

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

I never thought I'd die young. Even at the worst moments, I've always thought I was gonna live till I was about 127.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

The time I kill is killing me.

Our reality is narrow, confined, and fleeting. Whatever we think is important right now, in our mundane lives, will no longer be important against a grander sense of time and space.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.