Quotes About Mortality

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever.

Be it Schumacher or a Shoe-maker, we are all racing toward the same finishline. Realizing the fragility of life can race you to greatness

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

When you're dead, you're done.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

Death is nature's way of killing you.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.