Quotes about Mortality
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
— Elie Wiesel
They live ill who expect to live always.
— Publilius Syrus
Life is not yours to take.
— Richard Paul Evans
The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
— Thomas a Kempis
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
— Virginia Woolf
Death to life is crown or shame.
— John Milton
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
— Joseph Campbell
You can't get out of life alive.
— Les Brown
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
— Cicero
For 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 futures, and we are all mortal.
— John F. Kennedy
When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.
— John Keats