Quotes About Mortality

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

death was the price of life.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Remember that life is short and death is long.