Quotes About Mortality

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.

We only kill each other to see ourselves as heroes in our fathers' stories.

You make to die You are the dead You the assassin of yourself

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. —LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003

Dreams are real while they last; can we say more of life? —HAVELOCK ELLIS

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don't accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Our society has a tendency to ignore or diminish the value of the infirm and the frail elderly. Their suffering and physical debilitation are reminders of our own mortality and the last act that awaits us all. But as the lives of Blessed Mother Teresa and Saint Pope John Paul II teach us, the end can be the most efficacious part of a life.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death.

Listen - by the time I'm 40, I'm either gonna be super famous or dead.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.

All my books center around death in some way.

Dying people often become childish.

I feel like if you boil supernatural ghost films down to their core essence, they're really about death.