Quotes About Mortality

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.