Quotes About Mortality

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

The body they may kill: God's truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.