Quotes About Mortality

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

The cancer of time is eating us away

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.