Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old mortality quotes, mortality sayings, and mortality proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren't even a memory, you're only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.Anthony Marra
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The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence.Sumiko Saulson
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Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.Conrad Aiken
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Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.Markus Zusak
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All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.Marcus Aurelius
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In that place things begin to wear away even as they are built; the living die a little more each day. The sun is too far away; light slides endlessly into night; fire and love consume themselves; the heart tries to warm itself with ashes.Patricia A. Mckillip
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Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.Tennessee Williams
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There are some fights none of us can win.Amy Rae Durreson
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That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust that measures all our time; which also shall be crumbled into dust.George Herbert
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The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.Carl Sagan
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In the end, the body betrayed everyone.Gail Tsukiyama
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.George Bernard Shaw
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Embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it.Darren Shan
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, the Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.Edward Fitzgerald
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A small fact: You are going to die....does this worry you?Markus Zusak
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.Anne Rice
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Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.Margaret George
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The moral sense in mortals is the duty we have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.Vladimir Nabokov
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Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living.Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.Iris Murdoch
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The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.C.G. Jung
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Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.Nancy Straight
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We will lost everything that matters, or everything that matters will lose us. It is predestined, the nature of life.Steven Rowley
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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.Frank Herbert
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When mortality is the equation, we are but pawns in a game.Dianna Hardy
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As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.Andrew R. George
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The end is never worth the beginning.Vali Myers
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Death is every mortal's life to be alive!Munia Khan
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Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.Hanya Yanagihara
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Life is a battle. It is a struggle renting us time against darkness. It's a fight it will never win. And still in fights. The Universe has no morality. It has no love, no patience. Those are the playthings of Humans... the seeds of the end are in each beginning.Peter Callaway