Quotes About Mortality

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Dear me! how long is art! And short is our life! I often know amid the scholar's strife A sinking feeling in my mind and heart. How difficult the means are to be found By which the primal sources may be breached; And long before the halfway point is reached, They bury a poor devil in the ground.

An unused life is an early death.

A?açlar?n sarar?p dökülen yapraklar? gibi, benim de ya?ant?m sarar?p dökülüyor.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

Death is what makes life fun.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade