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Quotes About Mortality

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.
~ B. B. King
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.
~ Sarada Devi
We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.
~ Paul Washer
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
~ Lillian Hellman
The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.
~ Atul Gawande
Everyday should be a good day to die
~ Dave Matthews
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
~ Edmund Spenser
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.
~ Martin Amis
I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.
~ Michelle Sagara
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
~ Sophocles
The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.
~ Stephen King
I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.
~ Steven Erikson
All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.
~ Thomas Nash
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
~ Plato
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Let your only graduation be in the grave.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
~ John Keats
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
~ Clive Barker
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
~ Tecumseh