Quotes About Mortality

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

The dead once lived but the living have not yet died...

You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

"I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?"

Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.