Quotes About Mortality

Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

Right. We all fear death to some extent. Those who claim otherwise are lying to themselves. Shallow people." "People with their nicknames on their license plates.

Death adapts, like a viral agent. Is it a law of nature? Or some private superstition of mine?

This must be how people escape the pull of the earth, the gravitational leaf-flutter that brings us hourly closer to dying.

5. In all things, before you begin something, be cautious and ponder what the outcome may be. In all that you do and undertake, think constantly whether you would want to be doing it if that very hour you were to be called by death to appear before God's judgment. For this reason never allow yourself to be found in any situation in which you could not trust or hope for your salvation. Live every day as if you might die and appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

How old are you Hogo." "Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be." "You don't mind then. That you are not young." "It has its buggy aspects as what does not?" "You don't mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death." "No, Jane.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

We are all dying of something, always, but our degrees of awareness differ - from Tubes

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

We die of habits, deplorable ones like merely living: finally fatal. - from Tubes

My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.

finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon. The next day, when I was walking with

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality

finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon.

They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger.

time had been busy with the flesh around her eyes and under her chin.

He often thought that the only safe procedure a person could undergo at the Ospedale Civile was an autopsy. it was the only time a patient ran no risk.

What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.

Death made real time meaningless

momento mori

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?