Quotes About Mortality

How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?

Men of genius do not destroy themselves along with so many others and invite such a dismal end.

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same, the more they change after all. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed, I headed back though the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come out of the rain.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

Everybody does die, Orel. That's a fact." "I'll grant you that, but they live first. That's the part that counts. The living part. You can't wait around doing nothing because everybody's going to die. I mean, in a hundred years, we're all dead, right?

The Dead were no better than us – they made mistakes, behaved badly, lost the plot, lost hope, treated each other cruelly – and, as we have seen, they certainly cannot be said to have had better lives. Ultimately, though, whatever they started with, and however badly it sometimes ended, all of our distinguished Dead did something that made a difference – and they did it by making something of themselves.

What's the most dangerous animal that has ever lived? Half the human beings who have ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the males only bite plants).

The number of Homo sapiens sapiens that have ever lived, fought, loved, fussed pottered and finally died over the last 100,000 years is around ninety billion.

You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day. 51

People were dying like flies

In 2003 a new coronavirus that causes SARS, "severe acute respiratory syndrome," appeared in China and quickly spread around the world. Coronaviruses cause an estimated 15 to 30 percent of all colds and, like the influenza virus, infect epithelial cells. When the coronavirus that causes SARS does kill, it often kills through ARDS, although since the virus replicates much more slowly than influenza, death from ARDS can come several weeks after the first symptoms.)

During the course of the epidemic, 47 percent of all deaths in the United States, nearly half of all those who died from all causes combined—from cancer, from heart disease, from stroke, from tuberculosis, from accidents, from suicide, from murder, and from all other causes—resulted from influenza and its complications.

Of developed countries, Italy suffered the worst, losing approximately 1 percent of its total population.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.