Quotes About Mortality

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

No one escapes from life alive.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Life is too short because we die.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.

Live life to the fullest everyday, 'cause we never know what day will be our last.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

Life is the flash in black heavens.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.