Quotes About Mortality

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

I don't think people really take pneumonia seriously when they hear it. But people really die from pneumonia: kids, older people, even just regular-aged people. They just die from pneumonia.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

I can't die but once.

To have died once is enough.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn't become a better person.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Why would I want anyone to advertise on the soles of my boots? The only time you'll see the soles of my feet is when I'm dead.

My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there is an openness to discussing. It's part of life. It's part of the every day.