Quotes About Mortality

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

American's capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.

It was safe to talk to yourself because of the roar you were subsumed in, besides being alone. I fragmented. One sense I had was that I was going to die sometime anyway. Another was that the falls were something you could never apply the term fake or stupid to. This has to be animism, was another feeling.

Bodies are visible hieroglyphs. Every body is an erotic metaphor, and the meaning of all these metaphors is always the same: death.

La palabra del hombre es hija de la muerte. Hablamos porque somos mortales: las palabras no son signos. Son años. Al decir lo que dicen los nombres que decimos dicen tiempo: nos dicen, somos hombres del tiempo. Conversar es humano.

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Sound, the blindman's cane of sense: I write death and for a moment I live within it. I inhabit its sound: a pneumatic cube of glass, vibrating on this page, vanishing among its echoes.

Die Nähe des Todes schafft eine Atmosphäre die das Außergewöhnliche begünstigt (und über die conditio humana hinauswachsen lässt)

Amar, es morir y revivir y remorir: es la vivacidad. Te quiero porque soy mortal y tú lo eres.

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone.

Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live," Marcus Aurelius