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Quotes About Mortality

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.
~ Clive James
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
~ Mark Twain
I'm dying, but so are you
~ Christopher Hitchens
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.
~ Tony Robbins
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
~ Michael Cunningham, The Hours
The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.
~ John Bytheway
She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.
~ Mira Grant, Feed
To be immortal and then die
~ Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
~ Euripides
If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.
~ Frederick Lenz
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
~ Jesse Jackson
You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
~ Larry Ellison
I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
~ John Lennon
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
~ Steve Jobs
When you are born, you cried while others laughed around you, likewise make others cry when you are dead.
~ Robin S. Sharma
That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.
~ Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
When the last leaf falls, what will die within us?
~ Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke
And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.
~ Abby Danielle Burlbaugh
All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.
~ Gasmaskman
The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.
~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine