Quotes About Mortality

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.

The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly. "That's much easier when your life has an expiration date." "It may be more important for us.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.