Quotes About Mortality

It was three o'clock in the morning. A time when frail people die.

What is born will die What has been gathered will be dispersed What has been accumulated will be exhausted What has been built up will collapse And what has been high will be brought low. The only thing we really have is nowness, now.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don't solve the right problem at the right time, that's the end. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus.

I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

We're all going to die someday - we might as well have fun.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

Death is a misery.

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."--Fidelis O Mkparu

Sometimes, I think that I love life so much, that I make death jealous...

Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. "It's the closest I've ever felt to dying.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!