mortality quotes

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.