Quotes about Mortality

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I was made to rule the darkness. — Rae Hachton, Evermore
Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep my — Mark Rice, Metallic Dreams
There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time. — Frank Herbert
We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud. — Marty Rubin
Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality. — Saint Vardapet Eghishē
Dreams link us to those who have already left this life. — Doug Dillon
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back — Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone
Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I belie — Werner Von Braun
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him? — Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine. — Elizabeth Marx, All's Fair in Vanity's War
Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's dark to me.We human — Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality. — Lionel Pigot Johnson
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. — George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor — H. Rider Haggard, She
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard
No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitt — Matthew Lewis, The Monk
The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop. — George MacDonald, Weighed and Wanting
[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to itan in — Epicurus