Quotes About Mortality

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.