Quotes About Mortality

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Life] wasn't a fairy tale, and it didn't have a happy ending--but then again, no story did. In the end everybody dies... But you can be happy right up until the last page...

the day I die will never come tis' that day should be the day I die as I die I shall lie as ashes with the ones I love most

Fame is a food that dead men eat—I have no stomach for such meat.

You write because everything dies, to save what dies.

To be well mated, zipped to another soul, is only one of many permutations of being human, both an abatement of suffering and a small, abiding embarrassment at finding respite this time around. It makes this life especially precious, and the certainty of its ending terribly sad.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing.…

We know that we are going to die, in fact it is the only thing we know of what is in store for us. All the rest is mere guesswork, and most of the time we guess wrong. Like children in the trackless forest we grope our way through our lives in blissful ignorance of what is going to happen to us from one day to another, what hardships we may have to face, what more or less thrilling adventures we may encounter before the great adventure, the most thrilling of all, the Adventure of Death.

Cilv?ks neiztur?tu dz?ves smagumu, ja zin?tu savu n?ves stundu.

Dievas buvo toks mielaširdingas, jog padar? Mirt? nematom? žmogaus akims. Mes žinom, kad ji ?ia pat, seka ?kandin m?s? kaip šeš?lis ir niekuomet nuo m?s? nesitraukia, Ir vis d?lto jos nematom ir veik visai apie j? užmirštam. O keis?iausia tai, kad juo labiau art?jam prie kapo, juo mažiau galvojam apie Mirt?. Iš tikr?j? tik Dievas gal?jo padaryti tok? stebukl?!

Beware of searching for the answer to your question, man could not endure life if he was aware of the hour of his death.

Žmogus negal?t? pakelti gyvenimo, jei žinot? savo mirties valand?.

Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained real growth and away from the material deprivation, stagnation, zero-sum competition, and high mortality of 'agraria'.

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die" ~ B. Habyarimana.

We are mortal clay, and we return to dust. All cultures recognize this truth, but nowadays we treat it as a mere metaphor. It is more than that. As you explore your own body, you are in fact exploring this element of nature itself. You are also developing the qualities of earth within yourself: solidity, shape, firmness, and strength.

It is odd that the Bible says, 'God created man,' whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, 'The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,' whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans are left to fight this battle without the coverage, support, and resources they need.

Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality.

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.