Quotes About Mortality

All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

A woman is told by her doctor that she has six months to live. "Is there anything I can do?" she asks. "Yes, there is," the doctor replies. "You could marry a tax accountant." "How will that help my illness?" the woman asks. "Oh, it won't help your illness," says the doctor, "but it will make that six months seem like an eternity!

Mie love ys dedde,Gon to hys death-bedde,Al under the wyllowe-tree.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.

I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

We are in the final minutes in the day of our lives, and the clock is ticking. Loudly. I wonder if I am the only one who can hear it.

Death is always sad, but it's also inevitable

Ik begrijp dat liefde en verdriet hand in hand gaan, want de een kan niet bestaan zonder de ander, maar toch vraag ik mij wel eens af of het allemaal wel eerlijk is. Een man zou moeten sterven zoals hij heeft geleefd, vind ik. In zijn laatste ogenblikken moet hij omgeven en getroost worden door diegenen van wie hij altijd heeft gehouden.

Nowadays, her physical condition was a source of constant preoccupation—sometimes she longed for the heedless way in which she once took her body for granted. Age revealed so many things about oneself, she mused.

Each death is as unique as each life.

Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spice and ashes.

And if I went back to sleep and slept for forty years and woke up without any teeth to the sound of Melody Radio in an old people's home, I wouldn't worry that much, because the worst of life, i.e., the rest of it, would be over. And I wouldn't even have had to kill myself.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. He

If people have to die, I don't want them dying near me. My mum and dad won't die near me, I've made bloody sure of that. When they go, I'll hardly feel a thing.

And you know why I didn't get those scans?" He looked back at the blanket-draped figure. "I was scared of dying. Terrified. Didn't want to face it. Didn't want to acknowledge it might happen—that I'd be forced to retire, confined to a hospital bed and get bed sores all over my ass. And then, boom. Nothing. No thoughts. No feeling. No existing. Just ... nothing.