Quotes About Mortality

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

A life well used procures a happy death.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.