Quotes About Mortality

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.