Quotes About Mortality

No one but death the redeemer will humble that head.

Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

She'd be frantic. Realize that she was about to die in

So here I am, alone." "You're not alone." "When you're facing death, you're alone." I grab Jenna by the shoulders. "Here's a news flash for you. We all face death. We all walk alone. The only difference is most of us don't know how close we are to it until it's too late.

È facile saper vivere. Grande saper morire. It is easy to know how to live. Heroic to know how to die. —Arrigo Paladini

None of us is meant to live forever. We're meant to live only in the time we have, in love and kindness. That's all anyone can hope for.

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

The fear of death was a powerful aphrodisiac.

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certain death, is something distant and remote, an island we might never visit. But for some of us, its right here, waiting.

We're dead far longer than we're alive. Why not celebrate? Why not tell ourselves a story about what comes next?

But then again, we're all on death row, aren't we? Most of us just don't know it.

It would be a shame if you were killed. I should be very sorry. I know I wouldn't like it to happen to me.

So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?

Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.

How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors.

Perfect preservation isn't life, it's death.

Don't be afraid," she said. "The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find." Yes, he thought, the good face pain. But the great—they embrace it.

The gods do not save us from death.  They only catch us when we fall from life.

So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?" Umegat cocked his head in dry inquiry.

You have more years ahead of you now than Pejar, half your age, whom we buried outside these walls these two days past. Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.

she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death—a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.

Death is not a performance to rate ourselves upon, or berate ourselves upon either.

Way I figure, once a drop is enough to kill you, any more you add makes no difference." "A reasonable argument." No it's not, it's insane!