Mortality Quotes

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

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

The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodie...

The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridicul...

Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked ...

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

There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin...

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

Do you believe that you will die? Yes man is mortal I am a man ergo... no that isn't what I mean. I ...

Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean...

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo

Ere the horne'd owl hoot Once and twice and thrice there shall Go among the blind brown worms News o...

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

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that...

...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself,...

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patie...

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition...

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition...

Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's...

Malady of mortality

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and p...

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wild...

The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wild...

A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia...

I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certa...

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

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

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retireme...

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love...

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop ...

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never ev...

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created...

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Morta...

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. W...

The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They t...

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother'...

The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if ne...

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not r...

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th...

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imper...

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you kno...

It’s hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I’m bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is ...

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you...

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old frien...

Death is never an ending, death is a change;Death is beautiful, for death is strange;Death is one dr...

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The ...

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more th...

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in ...

Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fa...

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, ...

I am not a Buddhist. Yet there is a Buddhist story that I hold dear. A monk walks in a forest, and c...

The vast and terrible depth."“Of course,” he said.“The inexhaustibility.”“I understand.”“The whole h...

Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the pain...

Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay ...

Weak and narrow are the powers implanted in the limbs of men; many the woes that fall on them and bl...

[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not becaus...

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 ...

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course...

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

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was an...

They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world ...

Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will ...

I had turned my mind from my survival just as a man suffering from a deadly sickness manages by a th...

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our ...

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its...

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have...

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be cr...

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

We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our ...

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the...

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love...

Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /...

The democratic age mourns the value of human beings.

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly pla...

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