Quotes About Mortality

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

And death climbs up the steps one by one.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Dead people are all on the same level.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.