Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

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"I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family"

Estella Warren, Model

"All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam"

Robert Herrick, Poet

"Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days"

Thomas Malory, Author

"But when it really happens, I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"I come like Water, and like Wind I go"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"I came like Water, and like Wind I go"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"Death does not exist"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"Death is the beginning of something"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"I wait for death and journalists"

Jeanne Calment, Celebrity

"Of course, there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment, only to disappear into the endless night forever"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it!"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures"

Steven Brust, Author

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome"

Robert Welch, Writer

"To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed"

Jim Jones, Criminal

"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse"

John Osborne, Playwright

"At this rate, I'll live forever"

David O. Selznick, Producer

"We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there?"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave"

Thomas Gray, Poet

"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"I don't want to hear about my death"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden, you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care, except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"Spare all I have, and take my life"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature"

Stephen Crane, Writer

"I'd rather be dead than dying"

Stephen Evans, Writer

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

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