Quotes About Mortality

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Mortal as I am,' he wrote, 'I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the Earth. . .

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

What would you yourself do to remain forever young? What would you confess to the great and silent god that watches in the dark?

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate.

I wouldn't mind dying — it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Death was like the thirteenth person in the household, crowding out all other thoughts, making it hard to breathe.

Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.

Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.

Giants of literature, philosophy, and the arts have influenced my life, but what have I done with this life? I remain a speck in a tumultuous universe that has little concern for me. I am no more than dust, a mote - dust to dust. I am a blade of grass upon which the stormtrooper's boot stomps.

Satan said, You are a temp in life.

Death is the only vantage point from which a life can be truly measured.

Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass—an hourglass that drains grain by grain. Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone.

In order to live, I have to blind myself to my infinitesimal dimensions in this infinite universe.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo. I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. It is the most common text found on Roman graves.

At my dying hour, and over my long life,A clock strikes somewhere at the city's edge.

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.