Quotes about Mortality

The present state is short and transitory; but our state in the other world, is everlasting.

A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

It's a great thing learning how to die.

Fundamentally we feel that we really belong to death already, and that every new day is a miracle.

Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom.

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever.

The dead were to be envied. It was the living who had to suffer from loneliness and distrust.

So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich and their homes become ever more splendid. For when they die, they take nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.