Quotes About Mortality

those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence

According to Suetonius, Vespasian continued his down-to-earth line in self-deprecating wit right up until his last words: 'Oh dear, I think I'm becoming a god …

Does anybody wonder so many women die? Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

He would say, 'How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away someday, far away...' And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born

All the positions, fortunes, celebrities disappear as a snow flake that melts on the black asphalt of death. So does beauty too.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

There's a clock on the wall and it's measuring down The time you have left til you're dust on the ground The people you love with the time that you've got Determine if you are rememebered or not v I v a l ' a m o u r

The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go

Life is not about extravagance, materialism, or money. It's about loving the people that matter most because you will never know if you will see them tomorrow.

They say life is a question and death is the answer.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.