mortality Quotes

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.

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.