Mortality Quotes

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

An Arundel TombSide by side, their faces blurred,The earl and countess lie in stone,Their proper hab...

Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if th...

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-...

I sat wondering: Why is there always this deep shade of melancholy over the fields arid river banks,...

Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,like winter, which even now is passing.For be...

Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis...

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still aliv...

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illne...

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this ...

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and o...

I write this in the moonlight, straining my ears to hear beyond the cold mechanical clock to the war...

But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps mo...

[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a...

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mo...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a...

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certai...

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think th...

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...