Samuel Johnson Quotes

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.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

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.

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

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

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.

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.

Unlike other animals, all of which are undoubtedly oblivious to their eventual demise, humans are fully aware that their time on Earth is limited. This is a reality that for most individuals is difficult if not impossible to bear.

I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

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.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

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

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.