Quotes About Mortality

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.

And I think What does it matter that it is not a linear equation if any variable is raised to a power? We're all just going to die anyway.

It is pretty creepy to look at. No wonder my grandfather died at such a young age. He probably had a heart attack looking at the THING beside him!" (Page 9)

No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?

Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.

Nothing mortal makes last; nothing the gods make endures forever.

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

The one I love the most is about two mayflies on a date; they watch a nature documentary about themselves and discover their life span is only one day long ? after mating, they'll die.

Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception.

I said, Is my father dying? He looked at me steadily. We're all dying, Jane.

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

That's the thing about dying. Nobody knows how long it takes.

When you're moved to find out who you are, study the graves you encounter as you pass by.Inside rest the bones and weightless dust of men once kings and tyrants, wise men, and those who took pride in their noble birth or wealth, their fame, or their beautiful bodies. Yet what good was any of that against time? All mortals come to know Hades in the end. Look toward these to know who you are.

Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals.