Quotes About Mortality

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

Life, the permission to know death.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

Life is a death-defying experience.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

The only thing that is guaranteed in life is that we're all gong to die at some point, so it's important to make the most of now.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

God, how I have wasted my life.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.