Quotes About Mortality

One's sense of mortality is a great source of wisdom.

And then it happened. This massive heart attack that brought the brilliant Julian Mantle back down to earth and reconnected him to his mortality. Right in the middle of courtroom number seven on a Monday morning, the same courtroom where we had won the Mother of All Murder Trials.

The interesting thing about reflecting on your death is that it reawakens you to what's truest about life

because we don't know [when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.

The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." —Cicero

Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you. While you are still living, while you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person." —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor

all the things we spend the best days of our lives chasing really don't matter that much. All that we really need once our lives get to the end doesn't amount to much more than about six feet of soil. What truly counts then is what we will leave behind

Most people don't discover how to live until it's time to die-and that's a shame. Most people spend the best years of their lives watching television in a subdivision. Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty. Please, don't let that happen to you.

I've yet to read an obituary that says, "he died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his lawyer, his stockbroker and his accountant.

These little hourglasses serve as daily reminders of our mortality and the importance of living full, productive days while advancing our purposes.

Who Will Cry When You Die?

Develop a deathbed mentality.

La vida que nos es dada es, por naturaleza, breve, pero la memoria de una vida bien vivida es eterna.

Not one of us knows when we'll face our end. So, why hold back that which is most valuable: your human capacity to love deeply?

Understand that your days are numbered. And with the passage of each glorious morning, you grow closer to your end. Don't put off expressing your gifts and talents. And make certain you enjoy this ride. Have a good time as you rise toward your magnificence. It's so sad how most people postpone having a beautiful, fun and magical life until they are too old to fully savor it.

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

Every life is terminal. No matter how long we get to live, we are all headed for the same end.

Memento homo' is Latin for 'remember you are only a man

Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you. While you are still living, while you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person.

Viviendo la misma semana miles de veces y llamando a eso vida. Creedme si os digo que demasiados de nosotros mueren a los treinta, pero los entierran a los ochenta.

Over the next twenty-four hours I vow to appreciate this day, as it is all I really have, and to use every minute wisely and fully. So much can be done over the next twenty-four hours to advance my life's agenda and complete my legacy. I will, throughout this day, remember that this day could be my last and that no great person ever died with their music still within them.

The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Creedme si os digo que demasiados de nosotros mueren a los treinta, pero los entierran a los ochenta.

science now confirms that one of the primary ways we bring on an early death is by not sleeping enough.