Quotes About Mortality

Al mismo tiempo, pensar en la muerte puede ser angustiante, por lo que tendemos a evitar hacerlo, y nos comportamos como si nunca fuese a suceder. Seguimos postergando experiencias maravillosas, como si en nuestro último mes de vida pudiésemos embutir todas esas experiencias aplazadas a lo largo de nuestra vida. No es necesario decir que eso no es posible, por lo que es completamente irracional.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I'm so far behind, I'll never die.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That second passed. It's gone. Not gonna come again. And while I'm talking to you, every second I'm talking, a second is passing. Gone. Count them up. Count them down. They're gone. Each one bringing you closer to your dying time.

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

Every morning, I would actually look at the obituaries before I had breakfast. And as a joke I said if I was not in it, I would have the breakfast.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.

A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'

I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.

I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.