Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of. ”

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that. ”

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ”

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. ”

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death. ”

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. ”

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. ”

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. ”

We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music. ”

I am facing threats. But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die. ”