Quotes About Mortality

And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

When the young die and the old live, nature's machinery is working with the friction that we name grief.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Oysa böbürlenmek neye yarar? Ölümün e?itleyicili?ini unutmaya, olsa olsa.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions of adversity, that you end up thinking of the dead, that the very stuff that sustains you tastes somehow of mortality. (198)

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

That's all we are, a few drops of water in a great river that doesn't know whether we are there or gone. And doesn't care

What right does it have, death? When I meet it, I'll give it the finger. Best I can do.

Thanks to Blast data, researchers now know that natural walking speed is one of the most accurate predictors of mortality that we have. The slower you walk, statistically speaking, the sooner you are likely to check out.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. —George Burns

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

I suppose it's a cliché to say you're glad to be alive, that life is short, but to say you're glad to be not dead requires a specific intimacy with loss that comes only with age or deep experience. One has to know not simply what dying is like, but to know death itself, in all its absoluteness.

savoring the words, and then aloud to me: "'Reckon not upon long life: think every day the last, and live always beyond thy account. He that so often surviveth his Expectation lives many Lives, and will scarce complain of the shortness of his days. Time past is gone like a Shadow; make time to come present—'" "—So

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

A world without death is a world without time, and that in turn is a world without meaning, at least human meaning.

Try this way of picturing a human lifespan. The National Football League's Dallas Cowboys' stadium holds 105,000 people. Now, imagine that you're watching life go by down on the field, and every day you watch that life go by from a different seat. You don't even get a third of the way around. Before you've settled into a third of the seats, you'd be dead. And, that's if you had a good run, eighty-two-plus years. Yikes!

The man with forty-five minutes to live cannot defend himself.

life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath.

black, and become infested with maggots—thus the inability to sit astride