Quotes about Mortality
Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.
— St. Augustine
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
— Saint Jerome
If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
— Samuel Beckett
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
— Samuel Johnson
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
— Edmund Hillary
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
— Samuel Johnson
It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
— Joseph Brodsky
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
They did nothing wrong their time here has ended
— CS Lewis
This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
— Leo Buscaglia
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
— Samuel Johnson