Quotes About Mortality

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

There's two dates in time That they'll carve on your stone And everyone knows what they mean What's more important Is the time that is known In that little dash there in between That little dash there in between

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Time and death sleep side by side.

Because the earth calls. The soil, the rocks, the clay. It calls to us to remind us, to make sure we remember. The earth will ultimately win. It always does. We will, all of us, end our lives here. Even the birds.

To live everyday as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

Vivir cada día como si se lo hubiésemos arrebatado a la muerte. Así quisiera vivir siempre.

I have come to believe that the long-dead were no wiser than we, even when they were alive, and their being dead has added no luster to their wisdom.

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Half-filled dreams and unfulfilled hopes: this was the number-one regret expressed by the dying.

We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.

From out of the infinite realm of possibility, a never-to-be-repeated creature comes into being, looks out briefly on the universe, passes its life force along to coming generations, then rejoins the undifferentiated vastness from which it emerged.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I always thought there'd be enough time for everything & just today I figured out that's true as long as I don't expect to be alive for it. —Time for Everything

Start today like you're dying, because of course you are.

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

In my worst moments, it seemed the state not only of me, but of the whole world, with all of us on the verge of turning around and finding the dead behind us... do your worst. Disrupt my certainty, try to fool me, make me believe. Get me to believe there is nothing dead behind me.

Then Methuselah embraced Havah. She whispered to him, "Methuselah, you shall outlive us all." That struck him as a bit odd, out of place. Maybe she had lost some of her wits in her old age.

An angel could traverse between worlds, but would become subject to the limitations of both. Uriel knew this from experience. But a Naphil lived in both worlds at once. In some ways Nephilim were stronger than mal'akim, but the mal'akim angels had one significant advantage: They were immortal, Nephilim were not. Nephilim could die. That point gave Uriel some small satisfaction.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old. Not everybody does.