Mortality Quotes

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

There is nothing serious in Mortality

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

Hence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we shallBreathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality’s song

Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip through my fingers like sand and when it's gone for good, I'll be none the wiser.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.