Quotes About Mortality

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.

Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

While life could be evaded, death could not.

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Life is a disease.

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.