Quotes About Mortality

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.