Quotes About Mortality

Suppose you have a village of 100 people. If half of them die at age five, perhaps from such childhood ailments, twenty die at age sixty, and the remaining thirty die at seventy-five, the average life span in the society is thirty-seven, but not a single person actually reached the age of thirty hale and hearty and then suddenly began to senesce.

Life is just a slow march towards death.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system. Heart condition, diabetes, slow-killing diseases with slow-sounding names. This is the body going over to death with impatience, one part at a time.

is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

I know nothing. (based on James 4:14)

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Many studies revealed startling truths about technology, such as that routine use of electronic fetal monitoring on every birthing woman does not lower the perinatal mortality rate, but sharply increases the rate of C-sections.

God deliver me from the sin o' fornication," Spence gasped, clutching at the sheets of blood that poured from the deep gash in his head. "Have the bastards killed me?

Meses más tarde Lourdes Ruiz, la Reina del Albur, se murió de un infarto a poco de haber cumplido 47 años.)

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

Like so many aspects of mortal life, sleep was overrated.

There will be another job, but you will never have another family. Someday you're going to be lying on your deathbed and you aren't going to be saying, "Gosh, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. "Old won't happen to me", you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

we are, everyone of us, in arrears to death.

A noisy bed-frame is the last sound many a man has heard. I do not intend to join the august company of deceased fools.

Everyone is too young when their mother dies.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?