Quotes About Mortality

I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit.

You can have an ankle or shoulder injury, and in six or eight months, you're healed. But if the heart stops for a few moments, that's it.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

The pain outlives the flesh.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus

Let us quickly be finished with this business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.