Mortality Quotes

"We shall all, without exception, be forgotten." "Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not" "To philosophize is to learn to die" "In Algeria, I had begun to get used to the idea that death could strike without warning" "I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever" "Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret" "From the moment we are born, we begin to die." "The talk of men who are drinking is rich with life and the sense of mortality" "Love appeared and with it, worries, cares, and death." "To die hating them, that was freedom." "Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth." "Time, time, time, there's always time, right? Wrong. Blink and you are 95." "Birth was the death of him." "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old " "Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell " "What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death." "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval" "All human beings are doomed to die, but they are not born to die."