Quotes About Mortality

I hope very soon to be better, for I have removed my Family into the Country, to my old Habitation at Braintree, and have determined to shake off a little of that Load of public and private Care which has for some Time oppressed me. If I had not, I should soon have shaken off this mortal Body.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

fragility of life, finality of death

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

We born alone, we all die alone.

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

man is essentially a soul clothed with a body, and not a body animated with a soul.

Considering his tuberculosis it isn't hard to understand why Nakamura Sensei was motivated to search for firsthand knowledge, but we may not feel the same burning motivation. We, after all, aren't about to die. Unfortunately, this way of thinking is delusional. We are going to die. We

Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the temple? No, it only had two stories. Too low. How about the elementary school? No, his ghost might frighten the children if he died there, and people would condemn him.

I have long examined things, and have found that death is less dangerous than beauty.

consciousness of disappearance and nothingness, a conspiracy to death

Death is but a betrayal of eternity.

The great challenge for the human being is to convert the defeat of death into a real victory.

Two things do not extinct from our life, death ans God.

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time.

Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an entire lifetime. But in the end, life is over. It terminates for the beggar and the affluent just the same, whether one is old or young, rich or poor, happy or sad.

Somewhere on earth there is a door reserved for each soul, and one day each of us will walk through that door never to return to this life again. Where that door is and when we will walk through it are unknowns we must live with and prepare for. Upon death, all of this -- this whole world and all of its charms and occupations -- will become as if it were all a dream.

Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.

I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.