Quotes About Mortality

The source of man is in man, and when a man dies, millions of men die in him.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death.

The only thing I have to do in life is die. Everything else is a choice... including breathing.

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.

The more you live, the less you die.

I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

Enjoy life, it has an expiration date

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.