Quotes About Mortality

You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you'd made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I'd vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn't have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

It's pretty simple, really, when you think about it: We all start out as little fishes in our daddy's pants, and we all end up a Thanksgiving feast for the worms, and in the meantime we have to find a couple good reasons to give a fuck.

I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.

said, "Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?

It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

more Australians now die of heat stress than die on the roads.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

I'm just a normal person made of flesh and blood like anybody.

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

When you go out on loan it's not the glitz and glamour, there's nowhere near the amount of money there is at the top level. People's livelihoods are on the line, mortgages and families. You are making decisions which can affect people.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.