Quotes about Mortality
Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
— Steve Jobs
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
— Steve Jobs
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
— Dorothy Sayers
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
— Mary Baker Eddy
No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.
— Robin Sharma
To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
— Samuel Johnson
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
— Thomas a Kempis
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
— John Donne
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
— CS Lewis
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Life is hard, but death is even harder.
— Peter Kreeft
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
— William Hazlitt