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Quotes About Mortality

On the Death of his ChildDew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
~ Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Haiku
And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.
~ Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight
~ Unknown
Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free.
~ Kingsley Amis
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
~ Jean Cocteau
Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.
~ Unknown
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.
~ Rachel Ward, Numbers
Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.
~ Unknown
Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.
~ Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
Killing is easy, " said Mo, "Dying is harder...
~ Cornelia Funke
Grandfather : Death is nothing to be afraid of.Renee : It's not death I'm afraid of.Grandfather: What is it, then?
~ Yvonne Wood, Dead Beautiful
the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death
~ Unknown
Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.Thank you, Confucious.
~ James Patterson
I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.
~ Unknown
Death is woven in with the violets, " said Louis. "Death and again death.")
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.
~ R.J. Gonzales, Mundahlia
Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.
~ Unknown
The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.
~ Benjamin R. Smith
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
~ Unknown
Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.
~ J.K. Rowling
I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.
~ Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.
~ Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem