Mortality Quotes

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowinghow long we'd have in our bodies.

When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting, ' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.

Death is every mortal’s life to be alive!

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

None of us are getting out of here alive".

We never actively remember death, ' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

O I will accompany the windUntil the chainOf my white bonesDrifts like fine sandAnd I become compassing.I become the

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

An awareness of mortality is a heavy price to pay for sentience

In the end, the body betrayed everyone.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

Mortality was never designed to torture you. It was designed to test you.

Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.

We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.