Quotes about Mortality

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.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

They live ill who expect to live always.

Life is not yours to take.

The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.

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.

Death to life is crown or shame.