Quotes About Mortality

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

I bet dying vultures have lots of awkward moments with their friends. - Guy Endore

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Remember watching "The Day After" when I was young and being afraid of death. I'm not anymore, death is a part of life.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.