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Quotes About Mortality

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.
~ Don Cupitt
Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.
~ Herbert Trench
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.
~ Mitch Albom
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.
~ Neil Gaiman
I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.
~ Sarah Barthel
You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
~ Sue Grafton
You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.
~ Sylvia Kristel
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
~ Thomas Mann
Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!
~ William Blake
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
~ George Saunders
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
~ Horace
We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we're mortal, we know it's going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.
~ J. K. Rowling
Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
~ Jane Urquhart
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
~ Jean Anouilh
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
~ John Travolta
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
~ K.J. Parker
This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.
~ Kate DiCamillo
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!
~ Lord Byron
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
~ Madame de Stael