To accept a little death is worse than death itself.
Quoted by Frank Herbert
Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
Quoted by Columba Stewart
Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.
Quoted by Kamand Kojouri
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
Quoted by Neil Gaiman
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
Quoted by Cassandra Clare
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Quoted by R.D. Laing
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
Quoted by H. Rider Haggard
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Quoted by Albert Camus
Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.
Quoted by William Shakespeare
Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We have presumed based not on our own but on others' deaths that we are mortal.
Quoted by Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Our bodies are the thin knife's edge separating us from oblivion.
Quoted by Nathan Hill
Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.
Quoted by Richelle E. Goodrich
...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Quoted by Gore Vidal
All we ask is to be allowed to remain the writers of our own story.
Quoted by Atul Gawande
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
Quoted by Ayn Rand
And so it was literature that brought me back to life.
Quoted by Paul Kalanithi
JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.
Quoted by David Pietrusza
Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life.
Quoted by Leigh Brackett