Mortality Comparison Quotes

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Last year as many Marylanders died of drug overdoses as died of homicides and traffic deaths combined.

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x–rays, cardio stress tests, EKGs and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers. If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The good news is that I've already outlived two Brontes, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I haven't written anything.

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.