Quotes About Mortality

Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love].

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

And make death proud to take us.

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.