Quotes About Mortality

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

Time does not die; only people.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

We're here for such a short period of time.

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".