Quotes About Mortality

I must be alive, " Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I'm a Toyota. You're a Lamborghini.(Channon)

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Fear of death is worse than dying.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivist, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy.

How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.