Mortality Quotes Quotes

“I think teeth are the first reminder of mortality. I think that's where it begins to hit ya. Cus they don't come back and that's it.”
― Terry A. Davis

“Ignore rumours about whose throne this is. Can't the Badman Killa go out to pee in peace? Come on ye desperados. I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father is a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.”
― DON SANTO

“I might not be immortal anymore, and I might need to live with the fragility of human existence. But only as a human, in the silence of my mind, can I see that every living being on this earth is connected, are one.”
― David Jesus Vignolli, A Girl in the Himalayas

“I deliver her immortal true love and all I get is a snub. She's beautiful but selfish. Is that what eternal life does to a person? I think death makes life sweeter, and knowing how much I have to lose makes every day more valuable. As long as I'm here, I won't waste another day.”
― Hope Larson, Salt Magic

“Humans recognize the duality, autonomy, and latitude range of the mind and the body, and all humans comprehend their impending mortality. Unlike other animals, humankind knows despair brought about by understanding the inevitability of death of all living creatures. The radius of human thought touching upon the longitude of our transient existence causes infinite pain. Seeking to ameliorate existential anguish incites us to ponder spiritual matters, and this sphere of mental activity spurs us to contemplate the perimeter of unknown frontiers. Our ability to understand the compass of life and death allows us to view the circumference of the world as consisting of a past, a present, and a future in relation to our own lives. How a person views the range of their earthly life and how a person rationalizes their march towards a deathly outback creates a system of beliefs that separate people into classes, and the variations amongst class members’ belief systems supplements who we think we are.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Pain is a constant reminder of our mortality”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“Much of morality is peculiar to mortality.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven No. 1: Fablehaven; Rise of the Evening Star

“The dying does not amount to much; it is the thinking about it that hurts you mortals most.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Sea Fairies

“He would have given the world to have been a little braver at the time, but it did not occur to him that he might still be brave.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“The Sunday morning choir raised their voices to fever pitch with another gospel tune. Slurring voices filled with thick drawls of the local accent. The choir a mix of young girls her own age, alongside elderly women, with a few men thrown in for good measure. The old ladies wore tight gray buns and librarian glasses. Could they have ever been young? Could their husbands have?”
― Jaime Allison Parker, Justice of the Fox

“Creating art allows us to beat the odds and find immortality, without having to do the whole Doctor Faustus thing. Though Brian Wilson and Mike Love no longer collaborate and Carl and Dennis Wilson are gone, they are all still together on the radio late at night, where they join voices and are young and golden and beautiful forever.”
― William McKeen, Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles

“The reality? Is Your Mortality. Share The Love Now”
― Bernardo Moya

“Ultimately, the mirror reflects our mortality; when we gaze in the mirror, we gaze at a skeleton.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Those you fear are mere mortals, deep inside they tremble as you do and would ask for your assistance if it were not for their pride”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“We are faced with two great delusions in life: the first is that we will live on through our children—that our spirit will somehow continue to exist in the memories of those who cry at our graves. The second, even more insidious, delusion is that we will live on through our art—that our spirit will somehow continue to exist in the words we put down on paper. Alas, being remembered and existing are not the same things—and the best we can do is to love our children and take joy in creating our art.”
― Anthony Marais

“It's common for the dying to feed back their last moments in their own way... People seem to create the afterlife they want, or feel they deserve, before it fades to black.”
― Dash Shaw, Doctors

“When you were living in the moment though, it wasn’t possible to truly understand how finite it all was. Don’t we all secretly hope that we are the exception to the rules of time? We might even be immortal. Then, one day, something happens, you see your aging reflection in the mirror, really see it, and you know you’ve been fooling yourself. You can’t go back and relive it again and remembering can be a beautiful thing, but it can also break your heart.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“All beings experience hunger, that persistent reminder of mortality. The blooming hollow inside all, which affirms that only by taking from without and devouring within can we extend our coil. Hunger is universal for those who are destined to die. As they feed, they pay the incremental bribes that forestall its coming.”
― Ian St. Martin, Lucius: The Faultless Blade

“In the realm of mortality, death is the ultimate equalizer, rendering all earthly distinctions meaningless.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“We’re not bleedin’ gods, mate. We’ve only so much time to love and laugh and shag and cry and grow old together as that ruddy clock keeps ticking away.”
― Giselle Beaumont, On the Edge of Daylight

“The four seasons represent one's mortality: Spring is birth, Summer is childhood, Autumn is adulthood, and, of course, Winter is death. Winter is the season I think about the most. The frigidness, the death of leaves, the snow reaping the fields.”
― Nicole Cheng, Glass Bones and Paper Skin: The Journal of Nix

“Seaux d'eau
Mégots morts
Deux corps sous les décombres
dans l'ombre du décor”
― Jacque Prévert