Quotes About Mortality

Only the good die young.

If Saturn's son, and changeful Fate, assigned A double life-time to our mortal kind, That one in joys and one in woes be past, Who had his woes first would have joys at last.

How brief the life allotted us by Fate!

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

All life is an argument for death.

To appear for a little time and then vanish away, is the outward biography of all men, a circle of smoke that breaks, a bubble on the stream that bursts, a spark put out by a breath.

Oh sure, I have regrets, but that's the nice thing about age. Regrets fade. And eventually, you die.

Life gets old very quickly, until of course they tell you your number is up, which is when you start paying attention to the precious miracle you are about to lose.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

We shall die alone.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

I don't feel the need to get out, but I can't work forever, so I guess I'd better think about it," said Paul Saginaw of Zingerman's. "Currently our exit strategy is death.

PRODUIRE, POURRIR, MOURIR.

A conservative estimate of trailside deaths for 1850 alone is 5,000, meaning that among the optimistic souls departing St. Louis to start a new and better life, one in eleven never made it past the Rockies.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

From the fool's gold mouthpieceThe hollow horn plays wasted wordsProves to warnThat he not busy being bornIs busy dying.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

We filthy rich till we decompose When we pass people squeeze them nose

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.