Quotes About Mortality

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.