Quotes About Mortality

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

Life is a near-death experience.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I make more time to have fun in the life I'm living before I'm worm food.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?