Quotes About Mortality

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100% - Patti Digh

It's not Life that begans at forty, it's Death - Victoria

Same green walls. Same table. Same roster of death due to malice, melancholy, folly or fate. Morin did the honours. A dealer, held and punched by two rivals, dropped to the sidewalk and never got up. Probable homicide by rotation and hyperextension of the head. A man noosed his neck to a tree and hit the gas in his pickup. Probably suicide by self-decapitation. A meth addict slept naked on his balcony and froze to death. Probably accident by supreme stupidity.

Someone had collected shards of bone and brain pudding and sealed them in a Ziploc bag. The plastic sack lay in the man's lap, as though he'd been put in charge of watching over his own brain.

I know I will die in a car crash.

What they all knew was this: Life was fragile.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side.

Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it.

He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone.

Life is too meaningful to die.

How do I die?" "That's simple! You just live. All living creatures die eventually." "I see... I have to live... until I figure out how to die..." "That's right. Just keep going, and your life will end before you know it. That's when death happens.

the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.

Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

Death is the one foe that everyone faces, the one foe that never loses.

Life was, in fact, cheap. If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away. If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand...

You know, life's a funny thing. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

In the hundred and fifty years before the great visitation of 1665 there were only a dozen years when London was free from plague.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

It's the dying that makes the living matter.

No one gets out of here alive.

A dead man's shroud has no pockets.