Quotes About Mortality

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Never take life too seriously; after all, no one gets out of it alive.

Life is wasted on the living.

He who fears death enjoys not life.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.