“Heaven forbid we should end the evening reflecting on our own mortality.”— Nick Hornby, David Goldman, Peter Sarsgaard, imdb.com
“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…”— Edgar Wright, Shaun, Simon Pegg, imdb.com
“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.”— Haley Nahman, manrepeller.com
“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.”— Emily Nussbaum, newyorker.com
“[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.”— Michael Schur, Eleanor Shellstrop, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“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,…”— Suzanne Keilly, Ruby Knowby, Lucy Lawless, imdb.com
“Edith, somebody's gotta be dead; that's life.”— Don Nicholl, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com
“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…”— Don Rickles, esquire.com
“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.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“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…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Why do people struggle to make goals out of greed, when they know that someday we all end in the grave?”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“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.””— Henry Drummond,
“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero, essays.quotidiana.org
“Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?”— Pele, gq-magazine.co.uk