Quotes About Mortality

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

Life is death we're lengthy at

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

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

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.

The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional.

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn't resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.

Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

You have to experience you own life just as death.

Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!

live as temporal, serve as eternal