Quotes About Mortality

Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die.

Surely none are so crazy as those who are content to live unprepared to die. Surely the unbelief of men is the most amazing thing in the world.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

When I die, I can't serve you. When I'm in the grave, how can I praise your goodness?

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Don't rush to your death.

The Teams had a saying: "Don't rush to your death.

Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the importance of a single flower, or blade of grass, or vegetable, or bird. It would make no difference if those men who held that ancient pass or that equally ancient fort had, instead, died of disease or old age or in a saloon fight. But it made a difference that they died where they did. It mattered. It justified their whole existence.

The individual human life span is brief and, in the long view, inconsequential,' he said. 'We are children one day and signing out the next. Therefore, in the brief moment we are allotted, live reasonably, be compassionate, and when your hour comes, accept it without histrionics. Never forget that your handful of hours is a supreme gift. Use them wisely, do not fritter them away, and remember that your life is not an entitlement.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

The passport to a better life is to think about your death occasionally.

Coffee has carcinogens, causes cancer. And it also has caffeine. So not only are you dying, you watch yourself go.

We are finite, we are temporal, and we are embodied.

Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are apart of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked out, and if you do not use this time for clearing the clouds from your mind, it will be gone and so will you.

Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.

Perhaps you never have time when are you alive? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others.

After the first death there is no other.' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.