Quotes About Mortality

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.