Quotes About Mortality

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

There is no wisdom but in death

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death".

one of the most heartbreaking conditions of life on Earth is that most of the animals we love... die so long before we do.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

Don't take life seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.

Death is the reward for living

People are afraid to die, and even more afraid to live.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

And we all go with them, into the silent funeral,Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury.I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon youWhich shall be the darkness of God.