Quotes About Mortality

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts, , actions! They are all but grains of sand

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

Even the death won't be an end of our dreams.Take your dreams to the tomb

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

You are born every day, until the day you finally die.

You came to this world with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing. There is nothing to gain or lose. You can only touch everyone and everything with your love.

Life's biggest enemy is time. It kills us slowly as the illusion changes.

We are here on earth for a while.

I'm not sure. But – unless I'm struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

We are not living. We are swimming in water called time. When our bodies get tired, we drowned and die.

Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.

Life is real. life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.

After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many." "Live life after death - pledge to donate your body.