Quotes about Mortality
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
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.
- John Malkovich
Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.
- Joni Eareckson Tada