Quotes About Mortality

Death to life is crown or shame.

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Life is scarier than death.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

Man is truly born the time he dies.

I think that life expectancy over the last 10 years has increased dramatically. You're living longer.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Until you die .. it's all life.

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

You can't get out of life alive.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.