Quotes about Mortality

Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about. Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.

the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others.

But not, surely, for the first time in human history. How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. The dead bodies evaporating like slow smoke; their loved and carefully tended homes crumbling away like deserted anthills. Their bones reverting to calcium; night predators

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Everyone is born equal; we will all die and shed our earthly glory. Riches, power and fame last for only a few short years. Why do we cling so desperately to these fleeting things? Why can't people who have more than enough for their own needs give the rest to their fellow human beings? Why should anyone have to have such a hard life for those few short years on earth?

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.