H. L. Mencken Quotes

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

I hope I die before I get old.

At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Mortality defines the human condition.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.