Quotes About Mortality

Life is priceless even to an ant.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.