Quotes About Mortality

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?

Life is Time Management and then you're dead.

There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking.

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.