Quotes About Mortality

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

It's just the reality. Everyone's going to die and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.