Quotes About Mortality

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

With every death, a world is disappearing.

Death is just infinity closing in.

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

Death, thou shalt die.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Death's long anabasis.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Death takes no bribes.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

You get angry - death does that.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.