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Quotes About Mortality

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.
~ Darren Shan, Bec
The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.
~ Unknown
The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I'm going to die.
~ Agnostic Zetetic
Waking up in a room with no natural light does something to a man. no windows. I'm almost afraid to die. I fear my soul won't make it out.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown
~ Prabhukrishna M
Dead man shouldn't have no fears. Makes his passing easier.
~ Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden
Do you want to stick needles in the living or scalpels in the dead?
~ Unknown
She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
~ Unknown
I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.
~ Munia Khan
Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.
~ Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
There's no getting better, Storm. This is it." There's no coming back from the dead.
~ K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths
[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
~ Richard Baxter
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
~ George Santayana
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
~ Tom Stoppard
Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks
~ Dean Cavanagh
Sometimes it seemed like the whole point of life was not to die the same death as your father.
~ Christopher Bollen, Orient
Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph
~ Ronald Barthes
Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.
~ Tony Harrison
Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.
~ Unknown
We are bound to expireEven metal which is sturdiest, Rusts.Even oxygen, the breath of life, Soon transpires.8/6/11 -Luis Medina
~ Unknown
I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
I do not fear death.I fear dying incomplete
~ Levon Peter Poe
With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.
~ Anonymous