Quotes About Mortality

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and I'm like, 'Yeah, sure. Fair enough.'

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

What happens if a car comes? We die.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

A mortal life with love is endlessly superior to an immortal life without love.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.