Quotes About Mortality

Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

We are all dying of life.

When you die it's the end of your life.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

Everyday is one less day.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.