Quotes about Mortality

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon

But we must not follow those who advise us…being mortal, [to think] of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.

Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

I don't know when the end of the world is, but there are people that I speak to every night, the end of their world could be tomorrow because we don't know when life will end.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.