Quotes About Mortality

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

Don't listen to the ramblings of fools, " he said, smiling grimly. "When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?

Wen I die, my money is not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious and keep smiling like the joker

People those enjoy life never thought about death and those thought about death never enjoy life.

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form - just as we have since the day we were born.

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

If we go out there thinking we're invulnerable, we'll get stupid. Stupid people die, and all too often, they take friends with them.

Janson gave an eloquent shrug. "Myn, I'm living on borrowed time. I've nearly been killed more times than, than, well, more times than you've been slapped, certainly. If I wait until some imaginary distant point in my life to start enjoying it, I'll be dead before I get there. But if I get killed tomorrow, at least I can be pretty sure that I enjoyed myself more than whoever's killing me. You understand?

I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.

He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignified way, on the jakes or with his face in the porridge.

The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality.

I remember my mother telling me, when she was in the midst of settling my grandfather's estate, that fifty percent of a person's medical expenses are incurred in the last six months of life. My grandfather's history of himself was distributed even more disproportionately: Ninety percent of everything he ever told me about his life, I heard during its final ten days.

I felt cold just thinking about that, just how things come to an end, how death is subsumed in the pull of daily life, how a man or woman dies, and life goes on. There were no irrevocable losses.