mortality Quotes

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.