Quotes about Mortality

I want to die, even though I don't have to.

you are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

If you are kissing your child or wife, say that it is a human being whom you are kissing, for when the wife or child dies, you will not be disturbed.

I hope death overtakes me when I'm occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it — or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.