Quotes About Mortality

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

A cancer diagnosis is a wakeup call that our time is limited.

Our world has us always here. We will be here from now 'til the end of time... maybe not! And that's the scary part!

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

The good news is that I've already outlived two Brontes, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I haven't written anything.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Everyday is one less day.

We will all go together when we go,All suffused with an incandescent glow.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

hell is boiling over. And heaven is full. We're chained to the world. And we all gotta pull. And we're all gonna be ...just dirt in the ground".

All my friends are dead, or else they're not feeling too good.

Everybody wants to go to heaven . . . nobody wants to die!

Life isn't always fair . . . but it's sure fairer than death!

Only old people go to church, when they know they're running out of time.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.