Quotes About Mortality

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

The more remote or exotic the place, the more likely we are to have full frontal views of the dead and dying.

And the cancer deaths of those harder to describe as losers, like Freud and Wittgenstein, have been diagnosed as the gruesome penalty exacted for a lifetime of instinctual renunciation. (Few remember that Rimbaud died of cancer.)

Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. —Tuck Everlasting

Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on.

Life and death do not wait for legal action. —Daphne du Maurier

Death, oh death, How can it be That I must come and go with thee For death, oh death How can it be I'm unprepared For eternity.

It is these black clothes, said Strange. I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

And such a pinched-looking ruin of a thing now! I shall advice all the good-looking woman of my acquaintance not to die.

perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?

I shall advise all the good-looking women of my acquaintance not to die

The passage was underlined. It simply said: "What is it, Catullus? Why do you not make haste to die?" FOURTEEN

Second Lieutenant Yasuo Ko'o, devised a morbid system that estimated a man's life expectancy by his ability to stand or sit. If a man could stand, he might live thirty days; if he could sit up, three weeks; if he could only lie down, one week. If he urinated lying down, he had three days to live; if he stopped speaking, two days; and if he stopped blinking, just one day.18

lifeless body, lying twisted and

The stars merely reduce one to the status of an amoeba. The stars take the last vestige of human pride, the last spark of confidence, from one.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.

If there was one thing I learned in the last twenty-four hours, it was how short life is – how long death – and how there was never enough love to go around.

Tomorrow he would be laughing at himself. Hopefully not from heaven.

Woody Allen had it right: "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.

Death is the only monopoly. Nothing can compete.

dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be. That he's also half mortician is the secret he keeps to himself. The ailing bits he tries to turn healthy again. The dead bits he just tries to make presentable. He bores a hole, clears the rot, fills the pit, and seals the hatch. He yanks the teeth, pours the mold, fits the fakes, and paints to match. Open cavities are the eye stones of skulls, and lone molars stand erect as tombstones.