Mortality Crisis Quotes

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

I never thought I was gonna live to 30.

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.