Quotes About Mortality

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

In all dying our ages are the same.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.