Quotes About Mortality

When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

Men who have died in battle are rarely good to look upon. No matter how splendid their appearance at the apex of heroism, when the soul has fled it takes all grace and beauty with it. Bowels empty, mouths gape, bellies swell, dead eyes gleam fish-belly white. Nothing visible remains of glory. In the tents of death all men belong to the same tribe.

Everything that gets born dies.

When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.

The best preparation for living fully and well is to be prepared to die at any time, because impending death inspires clarity of purpose, a homing in on what really matters to you.

Saben entendérselas con la muerte. Es la vida lo que los desconcierta.»

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape but only by death, into another world.

tuberculosis was then responsible for one in seven of all European deaths.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

We're all going to die, aren't we?" Zoë asked. Phil shrugged. "It's not really a big deal, dying.

Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.

Fly down, Death: Call me:I have become a lost name.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield.

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.