Quotes About Mortality

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Day is the Child of Time, And Day must cease to be: But Night is without a sire, And cannot expire, One with Eternity.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death