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Quotes About Mortality

Death does determine life.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.
~ Sam Kinison
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
~ Ajahn Chah
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
~ Wilfred Bion
We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.
~ Ronald Rolheiser
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
~ Caryl Churchill
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
~ Sydney J. Harris
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
~ Ian Fleming
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
~ Francis Crick
And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.
~ Ibn Hazm
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
~ Rumi
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
~ Tertullian
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Thomas Hobbes
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!
~ Nichiren
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
~ Steve Jobs
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
~ Emile M. Cioran
This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
~ Omar Khayyam
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
~ Curtis Jackson