Quotes About Mortality

Here's tae us. Wha's like us?" "Damned few," she replied in broad Scots, "and they're all deid.

Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us.

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune—so long as you didn't actually die of it.

Had God not bound him to the earth with the ties of flesh and blood, he might well have come to such an end himself.

THE PATHS OF DEATH

Hodie mihi cras tibi—sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today—yours tomorrow. Thus passes the glory of the world.

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead?

It seems like people are just dropping off the Earth. I suppose that happens when you get older. It's part of life. No one's getting out of it.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

Write as if you were dying.

I'm dying always.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

Don't live in fear of dying.