Quotes about Mortality

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

The wound is mortal and is mine.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Death is the gate of life.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.