Quotes About Mortality

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.

Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

A useless life is an early death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave.

My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.

Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Time is that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

A little space of time before time expires; a little way of breath.