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Quotes About Mortality

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.
~ Shawn Crahan
I am 75, but I'm younger than he was when he died because I didn't live life as hard as he did.
~ Jack Hemingway
Words have a longevity that I do not have.
~ Paul Kalanithi
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
~ William Hurt
I'm definitely not afraid of death. It's like I'm looking forward to it, really. I'm probably a little more afraid of living.
~ Tyka Nelson
Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.
~ Valerie Harper
I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.
~ Ryan Adams
I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
~ Mitch Albom
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
~ Neil Cavuto
I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
~ Maeve Binchy
Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784
~ Unknown
I'm going to bed, where I may die.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead. Dead? said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You know this could kill me, don't you?' 'Look on the bright side,' said Howl. 'It could be me it kills.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die
~ Diana Wynne Jones
She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die. "Yes.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I feel ill. I'm going to bed, where I may die. - Howl
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Morta? - repetiu Sophie. Ela teve o tolo impulso de acrescentar: Mas estava viva a uma hora! No entanto, se conteve, porque a morte é assim: as pessoas estão vivas até que morrem.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Dead? said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.
~ Diane Ackerman
I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?
~ Diane Setterfield
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist.
~ Diane Setterfield