Quotes About Mortality

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Life is short and art is long.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

There's only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.