Quotes About Mortality

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

Death does not exist.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

I've lost friends and people that I've admired. The loss of any life is a travesty.

I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.

We like lists because we don't want to die.