Quotes About Mortality

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

After I die," my daughter said, "I hope some of my atoms can find their way into a cat.

We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans and spare change for eternity.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don't think, "What does she mean by that?" Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?

But what if you are already sixty, seventy years old, eighty, ninety? Let the thunder roll. You've got something to say. You are alive and you don't know for how long. (None of us really knows for how long.) No matter your age there is a sense of urgency, to make life immediate and relevant.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one… to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

This mortal life decays apace How soon the bubble's broke Adam and all his numerous race Are Vanity and Smoke.

Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absolutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.

Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absoutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.

I'm still afraid of being totally honest. I'm more afraid of this than dying.

Setiap orang harus mati. Saya akan mati, dan kamu akan mati. Dan yang penting ialah bagaimana untuk hidup sampai mati.

Oleh karena dunia penuh dusta, ia harus membayar harganya dengan kematian.

Our own intellectual shortfalls and perplexities do not alter the fact of God's astonishing foreknowledge, which takes into account our choices for which we are responsible. Amid the mortal and fragmentary communiques and the breaking news of the day concerning various human conflicts, God lives in an eternal now where the past, present, and future are constantly before Him (see D&C 130:7).

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.