Quotes About Mortality

We're all going to die, but most of us won't go out in glory. Here's what matters, though, for men: not living, but living on in legend.

I'm a hoax, a dying boy who's grown wings.

Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.

Stiu ca oamenii mor. Stiu ca atunci cand oamenii mor, cei care raman in urma lor intotdeauna se gandesc ca s-a intamplat ceva nebunesc, fiindca moartea prin natura ei, pare o nebunie . Asta se datoreaza in parte modului in cae omaniii au privit mereu moartea, de parca e ceva oarecum special, de parca fiecare persoana care moare e un erou . Vream sa murim spectaculos, nu doar sa '' pierim '' .

jak?e ja b?d? umiera?, kiedy nie ?y?am ja wcale?

Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.

I wondered how many times I would be told 'Be joyous' before I died. Can a man arrange the sorrows and joys of his life to the Christian calendar?

Aren't you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die." — Patty Belle Bellani

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

Soon I will die, he said, and then what everyone has been so afraid of for so long will have finally happened, and then everyone can rest.

I'm not afraid of death, just of dying.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

The continuation of man's life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.