Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

I always know I can die at any moment.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

We are all terminal.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

Human life is beyond comprehension.