Quotes About Mortality

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.

If you want to Success in your life, Just remember two things1) Your God2) Your Death

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

More die in flight than in battle.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.

War will make corpses of us all.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Yet intimations of mortality whispered something else in my ear—namely, that I will love my family and friends until death departs, and since death will never depart, I will love them always and forever.

life without the finitude of death—the inconceivable finality of one's own death—would be intolerable.

Marie de Hennezel, a French psychologist who works with the terminally ill, believes that "the person who can say to someone else 'I am going to die' does not become the victim of death but, rather, the protagonist in his or her own dying.

I want the quiet concentration of each everyday task to fill me with an active love of living and a passive acceptance of dying

This is what it meant to be human-to die. And I,who had been made of death, still had no part in humanity.