Heaven forbid we should end the evening reflecting on our own mortality.
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Quotes tagged ‘Mortality’
Shaun: Well maybe one should do the other, and then do themselves. Liz: Oh maybe you should do me, I’ll only muck it up if I have to do myself. [Shaun mimes shooting Liz and then himself, to see how it feels] Shaun: You know, I don’t think I’ve got it in me to shoot my flatmate, my mum, and my girlf…
I'm angry at mortality!
— Hannah Gadsby, Liz Doran, Thomas Ward, Josh Thomas, Jenny, Charlotte Nicdao, imdb.com
I have seen a great many things. I have attended all the world's worst disasters, and worked for the greatest of villains. And I've seen the greatest wonders. But it's still like I said it was: no one lives forever.
— Michael Petroni, Narrator / Death (voice), Roger Allam, imdb.com
Every time I receive a death notification—they come at randomized times (just like death!) between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.—I’m invited to open it for a quote about human impermanence, or the beauty of mortality, or something else appropriately death-adjacent.
The show is interested in love, but it’s much more interested, in both jaunty and melancholic ways, in death itself—in the terror of dying, but also in its temptation.
[reading legend on tombstone] Remember friends as you pass by, as you are now so once was I. Remember in life that you must die.
— Scott Peters, Kenny Harris, Michael Alexander Jackson, imdb.com
All humans are aware of death. So we're all a little bit sad all the time. That's just the deal.
How many drinks does it take to face your own mortality?
— Marisha Mukerjee, Beth Schacter, Alex Parrish, Priyanka Chopra, imdb.com
Ruby: Look, we're going to find Baal. You're going to harness the power of that Book against him, and none of this is going to be in vain. Pablo: And you promise me that we're all going to live happily ever after? Ruby: Even if this goes perfectly, there's a good chance you'll die. Pablo: Wow. Ruby,…
Edith, somebody's gotta be dead; that's life.
Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is…
Did you ever see a hearse go by and think that someday you'd surely die? They put you in a little box and cover you over with dirt and rocks.
— Frank Lupo, 'Howling Mad' Murdock, Dwight Schultz, imdb.com
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.
— Winston Groom, Charlie Peters, Eric Roth, Ernest Thompson, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, amazon.com
I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and image a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here—me included—will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust.
Old as I am, I long for youth — the everlasting youth of which the strength and savour fails not. I have lived long enough to know the sameness of this world — though there is much therein to please the heart and eye of a man — but with that roving restlessness that was born within me, I desire to s…
Why do people struggle to make goals out of greed, when they know that someday we all end in the grave?
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?