Quotes About Mortality

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

We all owe death a life.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!