Quotes About Mortality

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?"She had no answer.

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.

It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now, So you know that you ain't got forever just right now, Good to remember death man.

Malady of mortality

Wit defies deathbut death defines wit

To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.

...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...

I was born tomorrowtoday I liveyesterday killed me

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.