mortality Quotes

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

The goal of all life is death.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in the right skin, with the right person, and that the Apocalypse will happen with or without you.

Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.