Quotes About Mortality

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

No one here gets out alive.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Old age is life's parody.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead