Quotes About Mortality

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

This birth thing. And this death thing. Each one had it's turn. We entered alone and we left alone. And most of us lived lonely and frightened and incomplete lives. An incomparable sadness descended up on me. Seeing all that life that must die. Seeing all that life that would first turn to hate, to dementia, to neuroses, to stupidity, to fear, to murder, to nothing - nothing in life and nothing in death.

I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die as they always have.

when Whitman wrote, "I sing the body electric" I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be completely alive every moment in spite of the inevitable. we can't cheat death but we can make it work so hard that when it does take us it will have known a victory just as perfect as ours

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.

I knew that I was dying. Something in me said, Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept. Then something else in me said, no, save the tiniest bit. It needn't be much, just a spark. A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. Dumb fuckers. Their minds are full of shit. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.

I believe that to be the world's greatest living writer there must be something terribly wrong with you. I don't even want to be the world's greatest dead writer. just being dead would be fair enough.

I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir

sometimes you die sometimes you don't.

death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my wine

is that death stalking me now? no, it's only my cat, this time.

I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are hardly so and after he dies, well, then it's everybody's party.

waiting in a life full of little stories for a death to come

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Living too long takes more than time

we are a scene chalked out with the sick white brush of age