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Quotes About Mortality

I hope that death contains less than this.
~ Charles Bukowski
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
~ Aeschylus
I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings
~ Timothy Findley
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.
~ Elvis Costello
I hope I die before I get old.
~ Roger Daltrey
There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.
~ Gustavo Perez Firmat
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
~ Janette Turner Hospital
To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
~ Bible
Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.
~ Mme. de Maintenon
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.
~ Auguste Comte
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
~ James McAvoy
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
~ Walt Whitman
What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
~ William Shakespeare
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
~ Emile M. Cioran
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
~ Oscar Wilde
Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?
~ Michelle Madow, Timeless
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~ Anton Chekhov
So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~ H. L. Mencken
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
~ Bill Hicks
Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
~ Jim Harrison, Warlock
When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'
~ George Burns
I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died.
~ Mitch Hedberg