Quotes About Mortality

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'