Quotes About Mortality

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

Wake up! Time to die!

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

Algernon Charles Swinburne

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.