Quotes About Mortality

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.