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Quotes About Mortality

Death is what makes life an event.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
~ John Irving
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
~ John Irving
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
~ Lord Byron
Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
~ Lou Holtz
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
~ Mark Twain
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
~ Mel Gibson
Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.
~ Nicole Kidman
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
~ Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!
~ Gerry Lindgren
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
~ Gore Vidal
He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
~ Horace
Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?
~ Inio Asano
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.
~ Joe De Sena
Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.
~ John Bachar
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
~ Joseph Rotblat
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
~ Stanley Kubrick
I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.
~ Boles?aw Prus