Quotes About Mortality

We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.

fang will be the first to die

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

I was thirty-eight at the time. As the saying goes, if I'd known I was going to live that long, I would have taken better care of myself.

DIAGRAMMING MY DEATH SENTENCE

Death is nature's way of saying "howdy." Statues

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to," said Fang.

One only realizes the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the face of death.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."—A. Sachs

We're all on death row, ultimately. Are you so stupid that don't see that? Sure, you kids in here, as enemies of the system, will assuredly die earlier than most. As well you should. But all of us everywhere have a one-way ticket to death.

We'll all go out together when we go Yes, we'll all go out together when we go Oh, how the world will die In great fire from the sky Yes, we'll all go out together when we go

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates.

So, let me get this right...the big whoop about being human is that you get to die?

Have you ever felt a beloved hand grow cold in yours? If not, then I don't expect you to understand.

MEMENTO HOMO, QUIA PULVIS ES, ET IN PULVEREM REVERTERIS. "What is that? Latin?" Emily said. "It is," I said, staring at it. "My Catholic high school's preferred method of torture. Memento means 'remember,' I think. Pulvis is 'dust.'" Cold numbed my back like a spinal tap as I suddenly realized its meaning. "'Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.

I've always been infatuated with death. I'm drawn to the permanence of it and the unknown.