Quotes About Mortality

The knowledge that in a split second that I could be dead almost overwhelms me. But it is through constant exposure to that fear that keeps me alive and lets me do what I love.

Life is fleeting, " Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can