Quotes About Mortality

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

I'm terrified of dying because of everything being too unfinished. I would be happy being a ghost.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer, " muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of death.

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love

The saddest thing in life is to die without living.

No one escape death!

The fate of humanity is a common destiny of death.

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

Do not forget you will never live forever.

We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?