Quotes About Mortality

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

I like people who can't die in their bed.

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

And death makes equal the high and low.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.