Quotes About Mortality

You'll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don't have to worry about staying alive any more because you'll be dead.

Why is such a bad thing to die?

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.

My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

You never know when you're going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that's aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans.

Death is what happens when you die.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

Childbirth is nothing. Death is mighty. The 0 to our 1. There is nothing in the world like it. But there is nothing in it that is not like the world.

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I'm not afraid to die, " you say with a wan smile. "I just hope I'm smart enough to stay dead.

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

I am not afraid of death. When I have to confront the great reaper, I would like to recall Bernanos' words- 'And now, just the two of us!'.

O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust...

If death is necessity life is a choice

I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.

Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

...Death, " she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

Death is a shadow that always follows the body

Death of destiny: dust