Quotes About Mortality

No insistas en tu cita con la muerte, es una cita que ninguno podemos esquivar pero no debemos provocarle

La vida no nos pertenece, es un préstamo.

There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in where I am given so much power and attention, it is good to remember that I am but a bit of dust on a small dot in the universe.

Death wasn't frightening to a man alone. The great beyond held no terror when one had managed to avoid attachments here on earth.

And all she could think was that her life was passing her by, and if she didn't do something soon, she'd die this way. Alone.

I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if we think it's not going to end. How we individually meet that, I think, is entirely individual.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

I wish I had funny dreams. My dreams are rare and inevitably end in my own death.

It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

I'm not insecure about my body weight, or my money. I can take care of it. But I can't imagine or think losing my mother. I can't get her back. I would want to go before her.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

I don't intend to die.

My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that was enough. And, of course, that was true. Nothing could have been enough.

It's not that that kills people," he said, "it's the fear. I mean, it's okay to die. We remember that from our psychedelic days, don't we? That we are divine?

I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weigh 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

It is where we do not live that the dying comes.