Quotes About Mortality

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

Death is the only real elegance.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

There's no repentance in the grave.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled