Quotes About Mortality

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!

God made man mortal and to consol this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!

He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

All I am is a skinful of old bones on horseback.