Quotes About Mortality

Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music.

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.

I have a very simple point of view, which is, I'm going to be alive for some amount of time; I don't know how long that's going to be. Then I'm going to be dead for a really, really long time. Right? You need to squeeze everything you can out of this time when you're alive.

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

We die alone, but we live among men.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Men die but sorrow never dies.