Quotes About Mortality

And last of all comes death.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

For the living, death is thievery.

Death is very, very terminal.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

Art is a protest against death.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.