Quotes About Mortality

Death is the only teacher in evolution

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

He said being dead was a little like living, only longer.

The day will come when you'll be dead longer than alive--thankfully not soon.

It's death there is no cure for-- life the long disease. If we're lucky. Otherwise, short trip beyond. And below.

If {Death} comes for you?" he said. "Would you be so sanguine then?" She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. "No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

Nothing like not dying to make you feel alive.

It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

We lose June. We lose July. In August we look in mirrors and want to die.

I'll wear it like bones, like skin, it'll be the goddamned dress they'll bury me in

I'll wear it like bones, like skin, it'll be the goddamn dress they'll bury me in.

On whatever level you are presently concerned with death (and we assume you are; after all, death is concerned with you), you should feel free to write about it.

Pneumonia. I'd heard that word before. Over two years ago, when I'd first come to Susan's house, when I'd learned about Becky, her best friend. "What killed her?" I'd asked, and Susan had said, "Pneumonia. That's a sickness in the lungs." I was falling, falling. I had no one to catch me. Susan was dying. I had no safe place to be.

The sharp knife of a short life, well I've had, just enough time.

Embracing life means accepting death.

The only true death is to never live.

Those who run from death... stood still in life.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it.

Death has got something to be said for it:There's no need to get out of bed for it;Wherever you may be,They bring it to you, free.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

Just don't let yourself get killed before you make your peace, boy. Many's the soul who consigned themselves to hell without the devil having to lift a finger.(Thadeus)

It's not easy to kill someone, Rowena. To stare at them, face to face, that moment when you both realize you've dealt them a mortal blow. There is something that passes between you. My father once told me it's a part of their soul that creeps into you. A part that will haunt you all of your life. (Stryder)