Quotes About Mortality

We're all born dying, someone had said. What matters is only how we spend the instant we're given.

You're just a small piece. Death doesn't matter. The whole lives on.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Your greatest accomplishment in life will be living through it. That is perhaps not precisely the understanding that you are wanting to hear but I assure you, master, when you come close to dying, you will appreciate that answer.

How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has anything, I'm anybody, I stand beside my grave Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary.

Acceptance of ones' mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

Every man dies, not every man really lives

I am 25 today—it is terrible to think how little time remains!

in the long run we're all dead. Time is the only resource that matters.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:"tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".

You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better.

Time is all you have. And you may find one day thar you have less than you think

Kada sam ga upitao kada ?u umrijeti, on je odgovorio da ?u vjerojatno biti prili?no zdrav sljede?ih tri do šest mjeseci. To me podsjetilo na moje posjete Disneylandu. Kada biste njihove zaposlenike upitali kada se park zatvara oni bi obi?no odgovorili da je park otvoren do osam nave?er.

All my life, I've been very aware that time is finite.

Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think

Time is all you have, and you might find one day you have less than what you think

Ne želim napustiti Tigra u meni. Ne mogu ni zamisliti da se pretvaram u Sivka. Netko me upitao kakav bih natpis želio na nadgrobnoj plo?i. - Randy Pausch: živio je trideset godina nakon terminalne dijagnoze - odgovorio sam. Vjerujte mi da bih u tih trideset godina unio mnogo veselja. Ali ako to ne može biti, onda ?u to veselje unijeti u sve što sada radim.

Sooner or later, most of us will listen to a physician speak the name of our killer.

TinereÈ›ea este ca un prieten capricios.Îi poÈ›i da oricât È™i orce È™i tot te va l?sa.Vârsta îÈ›i este un prieten adev?rat ! Ea r?mâne cu tine,oferindu-È›i tot mai mult pân? când mori.

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

**(c)(p) PEOPLE LOVE TO ASK-WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THIS QUESTION OF MORTALITY SEEMS SO PREVALENT IN THESE LATTER DAYS. SO I ASK-WHAT IS DYING? ITS NOTHING MORE THAN JUST LEAVING AN EMPTY SPACE-WHICH MAY/MAY NOT BE FILLED, EVER. THERE IS A VOID WHICH FOLLOWS EVERY BEING. ITS THE ABSENCE OF YOUR BEING-NOT BEING HERE-IN THE PASSAGE OF TIME. IT BECOMES THE ABSENCE OF TIME ITSELF WHICH NO MORTAL HAS CONTROL OVER.

the system set. The truth is:- insurance premiums are set on mortality rates so that companies would pay out less than they take in. In america black people died earlier than whites.So discrimination set in. Racism dictated that-emancipated blacks were uninsurable. Discrimination based on statistics has now a technotyrannical basis. We have become a racially decadent society.

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.