Quotes About Mortality

Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.

A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.