Quotes About Mortality

Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.

As you are now, so I once was As I am now, so will you be

No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight. Honor. Morality. Perspective. Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

he felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

Then, breathing slow, and almost deliberately, stops. But for a moment the old man doesn't realize he is dead. He can feel Martin's heart and mistakes it for his own.

Life is over before you get to understand anything and so is probably meaningless

I take a long drag, thankful for nicotine. I feel calmer immediately. Okay, so my lungs are probably shriveled up, but I have a good idea I'll probably die before my lungs decide to quit on me.

In the state he's in, my child, your love is of no use to him—the whole world might love him and to him it would be of no use. Alas, if only men could love not with half their heart but with the whole heart God has given us, then no one would deserve to die. But as you see, no one is immortal, and that is how the world goes around.

Give your soul some rest while you are still alive, for after death only your body that rest in peace.

Life can give us so many chances, but never in death.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Death cancels all engagements.

Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

He would have liked to say goodbye, Shake hands with many friends. In Highgate now his finger-bones Stick through his finger-ends. You, God, who treat him thus and thus, Say, "Save his soul and pray." You ask me to believe You and I only see decay.

The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?

Man worships self: his God is Man; the struggling of the mortal mind To form its model as 'twould be, the perfect of itself to find.