Quotes About Mortality

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it's over. There is no safe. There is no control.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.