Quotes About Mortality

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

I'm still alive, but I feel myself dying, person by person by person by person.

I will live forever, or at least until I'm forty-five.

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.