Quotes About Mortality

Speak, then, manling," said Mother Winter. "You have a little time left.

I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead.

But a century from now, your mortal associates will be rotting in the earth, whereas, barring amputation or radical shifts in fashion, you will still be putting your pants on one leg at a time.

But Death plays no favorites and makes no exceptions.

Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone.

You'd think we would hold life in greater value than we do.

Everyone dies, honey," I said, very quietly. "Everyone. There's no 'if.' There's only 'when.' " I let that sink in for a moment. "When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Death comes, old man. Its hand is on your heart now. And your life has been spent in vain.

Death was something that happened to everyone - only the timing is different, for each of us.

Mab glanced at me wearily. "You know what it is," she said, "to sell pieces of your soul so that someone who will never know your name will have another chance at life.

There's a reason he fell became synonymous for he died. Losing your feet on a battlefield is an all-but-certain death sentence.

If Lara wanted me dead, it would have happened already. It would have been abrupt, swift, and well executed, and I probably wouldn't have had much of a chance to respond. I might never realize it had happened

whispering about Harry) He is supposed to be a decent sort, right? Depends on who you hear it from, said Ace. People who get in his way have had a habit of getting real dead.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

Perhaps when we die our names are taken from us by a divine magnet and are free to flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crow who can reach the top of Antelope Butte. (From: Hard Times)

What will I die with in my hand? A paintbrush (for houses), an M15 a hammer or ax, a book a gavel, a candlestick tiptoeing upstairs. What will I hold or will I be caught with this usual thing that I want to be my heart but it is my brain and I turn it over and over and over.

Nothing so much torments a geezer as the thought of the unlived life.

shells, as unique and timeless as bones, helped me realize that we all die young, that in the life of the earth, we are houseflies, here for one brief flash.

shells, as unique and timeless as bones, helped me realize that we all die young, that in the life of the earth, we are houseflies, here for one flash of light.

Mihalovic and other critics claim that chemotherapy, in actuality, boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates by destroying the immune system, increasing neurocognitive decline, disrupting endocrine functioning, and causing organ and metabolic toxicities. Patients basically live in a permanent state of disease until their death.

Years later, Philip mused, "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

Death Makes Angels of us all.