Quotes About Mortality

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.