Quotes About Mortality

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.

I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls

Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.

The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

I not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...