Quotes About Mortality

The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we're all going to die horribly anyway, what's there to be worried about?

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

Have you ever heard the phrase, better to be bored than dead?

He stepped on it. Squished it. Squashed it. Killed it. Cut it down in its prime. It kicked the bucket, turned up its toes, shuffled off this mortal coil. It was... an ex-rabbit." "He's a dangerous man, your father." "The baby better learn to dodge.

Valkyrie dried her hands. "I'm not going to die anytime soon, Clarabelle." "I like your coat by the way." "Thanks." "It's a little small for you though." "Yeah." "Can I have it when you're dead?

You killed the teleporters." - Valkyrie "I did." - Paddy "You are Batu." "I am... Sorcerers would tell me their biggest secrets - do you know why? Because I'm a mere mortal. Because they're far too arrogant to think that a mortal could pose a threat to gods like them.

Cheer up everyone, since we're all going to die horribly anyway, what's there to be worried about? - Skulduggery Pleasant.

Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.

They call it Second Lifetime Syndrome, and it happens when a sorcerer watches her family and friends age and die around her. - China

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.