Quotes About Mortality

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know--there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as its always done, and take everything from me--loved ones, property, everything--but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

All great men are dead, and I'm not feeling too well myself

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Every man is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath.

Slade had to kill several men—some say three, others say four, and others six—but the world was the richer for their loss.

El hombre es un museo de enfermedades, una residencia de impurezas; llega hoy y mañana ha desaparecido; empieza como barro y acaba como hedor (...)

I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off

Ah, if I had only known then that he was only a common mortal, and that his mission had nothing more overpowering about it than the collecting of seeds and uncommon yams and extraordinary cabbages and peculiar bullfrogs for that poor, useless, innocent, mildewed old fossil the Smithsonian Institute, I would have felt so much relieved.

It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen *

Short time here, long time gone. The reason to try to be good, smart, kind, and on the side of angels is because it's more fun and because there really aren't any angels.

Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by.

The paramedics said there was nothing unusual, just the way it goes, eighty some years and the inevitable kerplunk, the system goes down, lights blink out and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

You alone must find the way. No one else can help you. Every way is different. And if you do lose yourself at least take solace in the absolute certainty that you will perish.

Shy from the sky. No answer lies there. It cannot care, especially for what it no longer knows. Treat that place as a thing unto itself, independent of all else, and confront it on those terms. You alone must find the way. No one else can help you. Every way is different. And if you do lose yourself at least take solace in the absolute certainty that you will perish

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.