Quotes About Mortality

If we manage to cheat death, we'll give death another sporting chance.

I am not perfect, far from it, but there is no furnace of death inside me.

You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death.

When I say my prayers I have a terrible doubt. How can I be sure God is forgiving me? What if he will forgive me, but hasn't forgiven me yet? That's why I don't want to die, Sir. That's why I can't die. Not until I am sure. Are you sure?

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery. You've only got 70 years out of the 50 billion or however long the universe is going to be around.

Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Wait But Why? [written by Tim Urban] They have a chart of the weeks of your life. I have a wall chart of boxes representing every year of my life: ten years across and nine rows down. Then things are plotted on it, like average life expectancy in the U.S. I always thought it was kind of cool, because it puts time into a visual format, and I'm a visual person.

You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

If you're over 40 and don't smoke, there's about a 70 to 80% chance you'll die from one of four diseases: heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, cancer, or neurodegenerative disease.

Memento mori—remember that you're going to die. It's a great way to remember to live.

Richard lost a battle with cancer this year, but he experienced more in this life than most men could in ten, and he lived this quote until his last breath.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. —STEVE JOBS,

Christopher Carmichael, "You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

If you remember nothing else, remember this: If you're in your 40s or beyond and you care about living longer, which immediately puts you in a selection bias category, there's an 80% chance you're going to die of [one of] those four diseases. So any strategy toward increasing longevity has to be geared toward reducing the risk of those diseases as much as is humanly possible.

recuerda que has de morir, es una gran manera de recordarte que hay que vivir.

The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long.»

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

Give death a better name or die trying.

I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying.

If you saw a wounded person, torn and mangled, on the highway, the sight of so deplorable an object would fill you with compassion; the sight of your friends under the disease I am now speaking ought to move you much more, for it is tearing them to pieces every moment. Every moment it preys upon their vitals, and they are continually dying, yet cannot die.

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

They say even death can't cure an idiot. -Ririn