Quotes About Mortality

I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.

Death is not a joke.

far as life falls short of perfection it is more fun outside the grave than in it.

Promise me...that you'll...*cough*...you'll dispose of my body in the waste receptacles...conveniently located by the theater exits...

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

When I die, they're going to have to bury me because if they don't, I'll stink up the place.

You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a coat. Start from your heart and mind, for they are the links that most bind you to the mortal plane. See? This is how it is done...* - Chapter 4

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.)

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

Dying is easy. Anyone can do it. Living is the problem – Lazarus has been brought back to life and he can't explain himself.

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

Life that dares sendA challenge to his end,And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!

However many ways there are of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.