Quotes About Mortality

Dying happens to everyone, even stars. Even the stuff between the stars. But if you believe in yourself and achieve your goals, you can die so hard that no one will ever forget you, and that's almost as good as not dying at all. Well, it isn't, really, it isn't at all, and believing and achieving is just something sportscasters say, but what are you gonna do, not die? Try it. I'll wait.

Don't worry," Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. "My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

But the Tsar of Death and the Tsar of Life greatly feared one another, for Death is surrounded by souls, and is never lonely, and the Tsar of Life had hidden his death away in a place deeper than secrets, and more secret than depth.

No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.

A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.

The dead know how to savor as the living never can.

You carry your death in every cell of you. Every tiny mote in your body is dying, faster than sleight of hand. You are always dying, every second. How could I take that out of you?

Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.

Quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori? [...]

Suicide and sexual diseases. Two great killers of the Viennese, from the highest born to the lowest.

The gods never meant you to live forever, so why spoil they life they did give you? Is a rainbow any less beautiful because it's short-lived? Or because you can't grasp hold of it? Consider, man. Perhaps it is beautiful expressly because of that.

The single-parent family, far from being a modern problem, existed at close to today's level for much of this country's history—because of accidents, illness, and high mortality rates, rather than divorce. In 1930, there were more than three million female-headed households.)

Margaret, are you grievingOver Goldengrove unleaving?

Ik adem, en ik beweeg, dus ik leef. Is dat duidelijk? Welke beproevingen ook komen, ik leef.' Hij zoog de borst vol adem en stapte in bed. 'Het is gezien,' mompelde hij, 'het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.' Hij strekte zich uit en viel in een diepe slaap.

Ons leven is een sterven, aan de kant van de weg. Maar dit terzijde.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

If nobody had to die how would there be room enough for any of us who now live to have lived.

Me pareció entonces que las palabras que oía, cuanto más resonaban de inextricables cadencias indígenas, más removían en las profundidades un antiguo y familiar presagio: era necesario morir, en la historia de cada cual había una traición,

Death is a very important part of life.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.