Quotes About Mortality

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.

Life's true face is the skull.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.