Quotes About Mortality

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

No one is immortal. Don't worry too much about your life. Just sing your song... and go.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

La nuit, les choses vous apparaissent livides et sinistres. On pourrait préciser qu'à partir de l'âge de vieillesse, elles apparaissent tout simplement comme elles sont. Et le matin, on retrouve l'idiote, la délicieuse joie de vivre. Et la folie des projets. Comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills its pupils.

That infamous day was the most powerful reminder I have ever been given that you should never take life for granted and should treat each day as if it's your last.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Bookended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end.

The heart never taking a break. The bowels never taking a nap. When it stopped, that was the day it was all over.

Tu sais, quand j'étais jeune, les gens avaient peur de la guerre atomique. C'était une peur formidable. Mourir à cent ans dans le brasier d'un gigantesque champignon nucléaire, mourir avec la planète... Ça avait tout de même de la gueule. Au lieu de quoi, je vais mourir comme une vieille pomme de terre pourrie. Et tout le monde s'en foutra.