Quotes About Mortality

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Why should I be worried about death?

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

Death comes for us all in the end.

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.