Quotes About Mortality

I am the one who has to die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to.

I don't want to live forever; I just want to live a life worth dying for.

A flower blooms in the spring, and dies in the fall. A tree wakes up in the spring, and sleeps in the fall. A life starts at the beginning, and dies at the end. In between is what makes it matter.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all.

Reality is we are born and then we die, whatever happens in between is up to you. Cherish every day, don't waste a second of it.

Life is only precious because it ends.

Such is life... To live, to die... To be but a ripple in the waters of time.... And when the ripples do finally clear... As does the truth of your existence... Disappear.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

LIFE is short, DEATH is sure, HEAVEN and HELL is real.

Its funny how when we are born the first thing we see is the light, and before we die that's the last thing we see.

Dream as you'll live frever, live as you'll die today.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass, the earth, into the second, eternity.

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

Too many funerals, not enough graduations. Too many babyshowers, not enough weddings.

Any sage will tell you the secret to longevity is to outlive your predictions and see them to fruition. You cannot gloat from the grave.

I feel like I'm just gonna spend my life working and then I'm just gonna die......how boring.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.

This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.

No one who dies never said that he had got everything in his/her life.

Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Dont wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.