Quotes About Mortality

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

I started reading about media moguls in general, and Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch both made the same joke: they both were asked, 'What will happen when you die?' and they both said they didn't plan to die. It just struck me: what's going on with these men in their 80s and 90s who are still packing their diaries every day?

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.