Quotes About Mortality

There is only one way to come into this world there are too many ways to leave it.

Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.