Quotes About Mortality

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché ("Since the dawn of time"), not with a banality ("Recently, scholars have been increasingly concerned with the question of…"), but with a contenful observation that provokes curiosity

The psychologist David Myers has said that the essence of monotheistic belief is: (1) There is a God and (2) it's not me (and it's also not you).6 The secular equivalent is: (1) There is objective truth and (2) I don't know it (and neither do you). The same epistemic humility applies to the rationality that leads to truth. Perfect rationality and objective truth are aspirations that no mortal can ever claim to have attained.

The peak age of poisoning deaths in 2011 was around fifty, up from the low forties in 2003, the late thirties in 1993, the early thirties in 1983, and the early twenties in 1973.57 Do the subtractions and you find that in every decade it's the members of the generation born between 1953 and 1963 who are drugging themselves to death.

If this trend continues, the 20th century should go down as the last during which tens of millions of people died for lack of access to food.

And with an average trial length at the time of eight and a half minutes, it is certain that many of the people sent to the gallows were innocent.67 Rummel estimates that between the time of Jesus and the 20th century, 19 million people were executed for trivial offenses.68

But the fact that experts' assertions about maximum possible life expectancy have repeatedly been shattered (on average five years after they were published) raises the question of whether longevity will increase indefinitely and someday slip the surly bonds of mortality entirely.

The average American now retires at age 62. One hundred years ago, the average American died at age 51.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché ("Since the dawn of time"), not with a banality ("Recently, scholars have been increasingly concerned with the question of . . ."), but with a contentful observation that provokes curiosity.

As the decades pass, depressed people are more likely to die of suicide and other causes, so the old people who remain in a sample are the mentally healthier ones, making it seem as if everyone who was born long ago is mentally healthier.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

That is our 'pointed task. Love & die.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we're dying

If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.