Quotes About Mortality

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.