Time, Aging & Legacy: Mortality Quotes

Similar topics:Aging Legacy & Remembrance Nostalgia Time Youth

"The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship!"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, as a moth brushes a window with its wing"

Christopher Fry, Playwright

"Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

"Make me die this moment, God. Only leave my eyes behind, so they can watch, on Piazza Duomo, the women going by"

Abdulah Sidran, Author

"The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death"

William Alexander, Writer

"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days"

John Aubrey, Writer

"It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life"

John Hines, Clergyman

"It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS"

Bruce Davison, Actor

"For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift"

Michael Milken, Criminal

"As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer"

Tom Araya, Musician

"I don't intend to die"

Jack K. Cooke, Businessman

"This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"But death's acquisitive instincts will win"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist"

Stewart Alsop, Writer

"I have been in danger of being drowned twice"

John Aubrey, Writer

"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public"

Jessica Mitford, Journalist

"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that, well, everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead"

Richard Grimes, Writer

"I am one of the crucified dead"

William Henry Moody, Politician

"They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man"

John Pearson, Theologian

"It's my life and my death"

Gary Gilmore, Criminal

"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"There is no more final end than death"

John Thaw, Actor

"The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled shakes off her wonted firmness"

Robert Blair, Poet

"Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living"

Paul Eldridge, Educator

"She's not happy about the life she is living, but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death"

Kit Williams, Author

"Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know"

Conrad Aiken, Author

"This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear"

Gerry Mulligan, Musician

"A crazy man finishes in the cemetery"

Juan Manuel Fangio, Celebrity

"Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer"

Freddy Fender, Musician

"You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle: people filing past"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary"

Melissa Auf der Maur, Musician

"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible"

Isaac Butt, Politician

Page 24 of 27