Quotes About Mortality

And Granny Weatherwax said, "I was younger when I last danced with you. But I am old now. There will be no more dances for me.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people, said Adam severely. Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Every time I pass church I stop and make a visit So when I'm carried in feet first God won't say, Who is it?

I am fifty-four years old, the age my mother was when she died. The questions I hold now could not have been comprehended when I was a woman in my twenties. I didn't realize how young she was, but isn't that the conceit of mothers—that we conceal our youth and exist only for our children? It is

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

Be aware every morning that you may not last the day, And every evening that you may not last the night.

She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for granted, and she wondered what it would be like, to hang on every beat, fearful that the next might not come. That the throb of life in her chest would suddenly go still.

From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.

Happy is he who is forever faced with the hour of his death And prepares himself for the end every day.

The enemy was the microbial world, and over the centuries, it has killed more people than all of man's wars combined.

We could show them the most exquisite Ming vase, or a carved ivory screen from Persia, and they'd turn their backs and go straight for the human remains.

It is not length of life, but depth of life. —Ralph Waldo Emerson For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. —Kahlil Gibran

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. (2) I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health. (3) I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. (4) All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. (5) My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live—because death is a part of life.

New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.

Ich spreche nicht gern vom Tod, ich bin für Leben.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. They are the ground upon which I stand. To

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.

I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good writing takes time.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

He that fears death loses the joys of life.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.