Quotes About Mortality

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

You don't live forever, at least in this life.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.