Quotes About Mortality

We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

I am dying Egypt dying.

To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

Death's life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live.

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.

Death has a life which kills everybody's life

Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn't afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us