Quotes About Mortality

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Artists are born under Saturn and heroes must die young

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A wretched coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress

He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?

When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents, and the schools, and the state. The cause of death is the missing safety net.

If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.

Is it really winning if everybody dies?

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.