Quotes About Mortality

I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

Death's easy to find. If She wants you, you'll meet Her here as well as anywhere.

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no one's been really doing them.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.