Quotes About Mortality

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Life is short. Eternity is long.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

Life is hard, and then you die.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Cease, cows, life is short.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep.