Mortality Quotes

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." "We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass" "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first." "We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye." "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident." "There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." "You'll have time to rest when you're dead" "Life should touch you, even if you are handling the dead." "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague" "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another" "The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death" "Death is the winner, there's no point denying that" "Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive." "To live is to risk dying" "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." "My spirit is too weak mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep" "Clocks slay time time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life." "The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it." "Life is for the living, death is for the dead. Let life be like music and death a note unsaid" "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?"