Quotes About Mortality

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.