Mortality Perspective Quotes

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?