Quotes About Mortality

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

It is natural to die as to be born.

When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable.

These slow-acting and cumulative social forces seem to us to be plausible candidates to explain rising morbidity and mortality, particularly their role in suicide, and with the other deaths of despair, which share much with suicides," they wrote.

Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for meaning, and the struggle with our own mortality—are ignored and ridiculed.

What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.

We're all going to die someday, Sasha. We can only live our lives the best way we can. I believe in family.

It is not reasonable to presume an eighty-year-old mortal could survive an attack," Mikhail answered grimly. "It is not logical to presume anything," Gregori reminded as he glided up onto the porch.

Have you learned nothing of mortals over the centuries? They fear and loathe what they do not understand. They destroy each other using anything for an excuse.

Three deaths—by snakebite, by explosion, by razor. What next? Death by hot air balloon? Cannon? Trident?

The closer you are to death, the more attached you become to life

Cats have short lives. It's how they punish you for getting attached to them. She couldn't last forever.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

In one way, I suppose, I have been in denial for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

I don't have a body, I am a body.

Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.

as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In other words, the process both etiolates you and moves you nearer toward death. How could it be otherwise?

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be "me." (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)

Si me convierto será porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.