Quotes About Mortality

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

There is nothing to lose in this life. The only loss is death.

death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Sadly, we can't live forever. But we can write something that will.

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

This whole beautiful world will end for you the day you die, then why to bother for others, stay selfish stay happy.

If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.

Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we are in the end. Change it.

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.