Quotes About Mortality

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.

Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

When people ask me how long this will take, I say, "At least until you die.

Less than half of children born under these conditions survived to their fifth birthday. Some authorities were concerned, not because of the appallingly high infant mortality rate but because these children died "before they can be engaged in factory labor, or in any other labor whatsoever.