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Quotes About Mortality

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
~ H. L. Mencken
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
~ Charles Bukowski
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
~ Ogden Nash
Cherish the people you love, because you never know when Allah will take them back.
~ Boonaa Mohammed
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
~ Leo Buscaglia
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?
~ Joan Halifax
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
~ Jean Cocteau
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
~ Saint Augustine
If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.
~ MC Lyte
Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
~ Aamir Khan
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
~ Dorothy Parker
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
~ Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
Not loving is but a long dying.
~ Emperor Wu of Han
I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
~ Johnny Carson
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
~ Johnny Carson
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
~ Johnny Carson
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
~ Johnny Cash
One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.
~ Johnny Rich
Leave your legacy today before you're gone tomorrow. -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker
~ Johnny Wowk
How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
~ Jojo Moyes