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Quotes About Mortality

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.
~ David Hume
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
~ William Faulkner
The most important thing you do in your life is to die.
~ Timothy Leary
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.
~ Tom Hanks
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
~ Virginia Woolf
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.
~ Pete Wentz, Gray
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
~ Billy Graham
I'm always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.
~ Damon Dash
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ e. e. cummings
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
~ Mark Twain
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
~ Muriel Spark
Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.
~ Yukio Mishima
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
~ Al McGuire
Death must be easy cuz life is hard
~ Curtis Jackson
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
~ Edward Abbey
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
~ Epictetus
The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.
~ Frankie Boyle