Quotes About Mortality

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

You never know how much time you got.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I value human life. I don't want to see human life taken away unnecessarily.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.

Well, you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

Only death can cure the hip dilettante.

Calzada de Calatrava, as Almadovar's brother once put it, 'is the sort of place where people spend their whole life saving for a decent gravestone in the cemetery.

Morir es siempre problemático, es triste. Siempre es triste. Pero hay maneras de morir contento. Y ante todo, sin hacerle pagar a los otros. Las personas que mueren haciéndole pagar a los otros son terribles.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. I feel like a warm gust of wind could exhale my way and I'd be disappeared forever, not even a sliver of fingernail left behind. On some days, I find this thought calming; on others it chills me.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

People behaved mostly well and then they died.

Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died.

I just want to live until I can't anymore.

Because that means the day has ended. I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn't ruined. 153 and I haven't destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

Sixty seconds is a long time to know you are dying.