Quotes About Mortality

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

Dying is such a waste of good health.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.