Quotes About Mortality

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.