Quotes About Mortality

The opportunity to die was everywhere, and it just wasn't surprising when that opportunity became an event.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

And here is the truth from which all others grow; here is the spring from which all others flow: soon I will be dead. Soon, as measured by stardust and time. Soon as measured by comets and dreams. Soon. Soon. Soon, I will be dead. And here is the question that determines everything—what will I do until then?.

No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there

He's tired of watching his friends die," Cross said quietly. "We're all tired of watching friends die. It doesn't make him special." "Well," Cristena said, "it doesn't make it easy, either.

When you hold hands with the dead, eventually they pull you into the grave.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

In the end, he told himself some days, there is only what is done and what is not done. That is a life, that is what remains behind... It did not matter what sort of men or women they had been in life... his inner self would be lost to time, as he himself would be lost.

Consider all the mortals that populated the earth before us, generation upon generation, extending back through countless centuries. All are dead, all turned to dust—so many, one wonders how the earth has room to hold them all.

History and legend conspire to convince us that there are men who rise above the common lot of humankind, who are set apart from the rest of us by birth or achievement or the favor of the gods; but no man, regardless of his pretensions to greatness, is immune from death, and the death of the so-called great is often more squalid and terrifying than the deaths of their most humble subjects.

A man dies only once. The dread of death causes far more misery than the thing itself, and I shall not submit to it. It's only a short walk from here to the house of Lucius, and an even shorter walk from there to my house. I shall be perfectly safe.

Lucius, what do you fear? That we shall be tortured and killed? Every living thing must die, and there are things far worse than the suffering of physical pain. How much more terrible if we should comport ourselves disgracefully and lose our self-respect; then we should truly be damaged, and the harm would have been inflicted by ourselves.

Everyone has two lives. A second one begins when you realize you only have one…. Hug each other every day. Please know I am OK. Live your lives to the fullest and pray to be happy.

God made death so we'd know when to stop.

Between 6 and 8 percent of pigs die before they are trucked from the factory farm to slaughter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 123 million pigs were slaughtered in 2006. That means 7 to 10 million died on their own before we could kill them.

I know when I'm going to die. My birth certificate has an expiration date on it.

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

How young can you die of old age?

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

Some are born for peace and joy Some are born for sorrow But only for a day as we Shall not be here tomorrow