Mortality Quotes

"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd" "The aims of life are the best defense against death" "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives" "They give birth astride of a grave the light gleams an instant then it's night once more" "To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one let us deprive life of the fear of death." "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight." "I am not immortal. Faustus and I never signed a pact but I am damn close" "Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly? " "People can die of mere imagination" "God long ago drew up the contract for the dissolution of all elements and relationships, the moment they emerge from existence" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "The life given us by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal" "The life we have is the only life there is, and if we survive another five hundred years it will still be the only life there is" "It is not death that alarms me, but dying." "Money can't buy life" "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death." "A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old." "Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that rush, that does of death." "God owns heaven but He craves the earth."