Quotes About Mortality

Life teaches you to give and keep giving until you breathe your Last.

Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face.

No one lives forever, and ultimately one day will be your last day so be sure to live your life the way you like.

I want to end up at 80, 90, 100 years old, about to die in my bed, and I want to think back and say OK, at least I did everything in my possibilities to make the best out of my life.

What we build in dirt will inevitably return to dirt; what we build in Spirit will Live to the End Of All Things.

Wake up motivated AND thankful! Thousands of people around the world die in their sleep every night. They don't get to see today like you and I. Always be grateful and appreciative.

If everyone cared and nobody cried, if everyone loved and nobody lied, if everyone shared and parted with pride, then we'll see a day when nobody died.

It's not important what we think, or what we do or what we believe in: each of us will die one day. Better to do as the old Yaqui Indians did: regard death as an advisor. Always ask: 'Since I'm going to die, what should I be doing now?'

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Divine days fall like water from a cataract, and I had not learned yet the mortal trick of counting them.

My son must live. There is no must to the life of a mortal, except death.

Will you tell me, what is a mortal like?" "There is no single answer. They are each different. The only thing they share is death.

I did not walk as a mortal walks, but as a god, and the miles fell away beneath my feet.

I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands. All my life I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal's voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.

Quirón había dicho en una ocasión que las naciones eran el invento más estúpido de los mortales.

Such patience mortals must have, I thought, to drag themselves through it hour after hour.

No matter how vivid they were in life, no matter how brilliant, no matter the wonders they made, they came to dust and smoke. Meanwhile every petty and useless god would go on sucking down the bright air until the stars went dark.

And then I remembered, he will never be old.

The fame she had described was what all mortals yearn for. It is their only hope of immortality

This is what all mortals ask first, in disbelief, shock, fear. Is there no exception for me?

Tutti questi dèi, tutti questi mortali che lo hanno aiutato. Gli uomini parlano della sua astuzia. Il suo vero talento stava nella sua abilità a prendere dagli altri." (#Odisseo)

His fame must be worth the life he paid for it.

I thought, This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.