Quotes About Mortality

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Just to earn a living, to reproduce, to raise a family, and then one day to fall dead—what a challenge! It

People are born and they die. Wise words live through centuries and eons.

I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

One of my favorite Tibetan sayings is "Even if you're going to die tomorrow, you can learn something tonight.

When I thought about death in those years, I didn't quite believe in it.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

But many mortals, devoted to their stomachs and to sleep, have passed through life untaught and uncouth, like foreign travelers; and of course, contrary to nature, their bodies were a source of pleasure to them, their minds a burden. In the case of such people, I asses their life and death alike, since silence surrounds each. -p4

sed plerique mortales postrema meminêre

From the moment we take our first breaths, our days are numbered, so how we live matters. The decisions we make—the important ones and, yes, the mundane ones too—they all matter. Everyday decisions add up to form the life we live and the legacy we leave behind.

I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us.

Una volta, in tempo di guerra, quando ero un soldato dell'Esercito Imperiale, vidi la Morte camminare. Portava sul teschio una corona avvizzita fatta di ossa e biancospino fresco attorcigliato, e alle sue spalle si stringevano gli spettri dei miei commilitoni di recente strappati, ancora giovani, alla vita.