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Quotes About Mortality

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.
~ Claire Forlani
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
~ Walter Reisch
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
~ Seneca the Younger
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
~ Antonio Machado
You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.
~ Billie Letts
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
~ Bill Vaughan
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.
~ Tennessee Williams
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
~ Marilyn Manson
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
~ William Shenstone
I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
~ James Russell Lowell
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it
~ Erich Maria Remarque
La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
~ Alfred Jarry
to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
The only certainty is death.
~ Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
~ George Eliot
Isn't death the boundary we need?
~ Don DeLillo
What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.
~ Ralph Merkle
Death's but one more to-morrow.
~ Silas Weir Mitchell
All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.
~ Gwendolyn B. Bennett
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
~ Ouida