Quotes About Mortality

Here's the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't

Once we visit death, once we see the beauty waiting for us, our fear's gone. Used to be never a book written, of our experience with dying. Now there are shelves, waiting to be read. The beliefs, the experiences of so many others, now.

Here is    a test to find whether your mission on earth          is finished:                         If you're alive,                            it isn't.

You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?

No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk

Yo comprendo que es morir, me parece-dijo de pronto Pearson-. Ahora lo comprendo. No la muerte en si, a eso todavia no llego; pero entiendo que es morir. Si dejo de caminar, punto final. [...]-Observó a Scramm y, con aire sincero, añadió-: Quizá sea como dices. Quizá no baste, pero...No quiero morir. Scramm le devolvió la mirada con aire casi desdeñoso. -¿Y crees que comprender la muerte va a librarte de morir?

We don't bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don't take anything out.

wonder what I would say at his funeral if someone gave me a dose of Pentothal an hour before the services." (chap. 10)

He's going to die, isn't he? Stebbins said. Sure, McVies answered. They've all been dying, didn't you know?

Ich hatte Angst«, sagte er. »Leute, die keine haben, sterben jung«

He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.

Remember, when you die, there will still be unfinished business to take care of. And you know what? Someone else will do it for you! Don't waste any more precious moments of your life regretting the inevitable.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.

Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile. Until recently this was true of man too. Most animals die in childhood, many never get beyond the egg stage. Starvation and other causes of death are the ultimate reasons why populations cannot increase indefinitely.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

Gregory S. Paul, in the Journal of Religion and Society (2005), systematically compared seventeen economically developed nations, and reached the devastating conclusion that 'higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies'.

Mark Twain's dismissal of the fear of death is another: 'I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself -? ?and that is what it is when it dies? ?- the body tends to revert to a state of? equilibrium with its environment.

our species is the only one not allowed to go to the vet to be painlessly put out of our misery.

As many atheists have said better than me, the knowledge that we have only one life should make it all the more precious.

We should not seek immortality in reproduction.

An astronomically overwhelming majority of the people who could be born never will be. You are one of a tiny minority whose number came up. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!