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Quotes About Mortality

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
~ Tom Lehrer
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
~ James Joyce
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
~ Virgil
I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.
~ Jim Morrison
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
~ Eddie Izzard
Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain
Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
~ Terry Pratchett
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen
I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement. Of course He could have made it to last longer, but you can't have everything.
~ Neil Simon
All diseases run into one, old age.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How young can you die of old age?
~ Steven Wright
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
~ Max Frisch
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
He would make a lovely corpse.
~ Charles Dickens
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
~ Brooke Shields
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
~ Billy Graham
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
~ Bob Dylan