Quotes About Mortality

The cigarette is a mortal passion.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Life is dangerous, she thought. No one survives it.

Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser

Live fast, eat junk, leave a bloated corpse.

Lister patted the towel rail against his left palm. 'I'm going out like I came in - screaming and kicking.' 'You can't whack Death on the head.' 'If he comes near me, I'll rip his tits off.

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.

Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I'll live and die in every possible way?

Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.

When a parent dies, your center of gravity is altered. Even if you lived apart from them—even if you walled yourself off from all contact—you are irrevocably lessened by their passing. Death, like gravity, respects no barriers.

The fetus had not been harmed at all by the numerous stab wounds the mother received. Noguchi thought that the fetus probably lived for about fifteen to twenty minutes after its mother's death before it, too, had died.

8Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough 9to live forever and never see the grave.

Still, in the larger sense, in a broader sense, it's better to have lived than left, right?

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight. – Larry McMurtry

It's an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.

I've never been out four days. You've never been dead before.

I've never been out four days." "You've never been dead before.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people apologize to corpses?

Another irony is that the achievement of mass affluence in much of the world--the decline in child mortality, the extension of adult life spans, and the reduction in inequality--have not made us any happier than our hunter-gatherer forebears.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

All geniuses die young.