Mortality quotes
Welcome to our collection of Mortality quotes! Mortality is a topic that has fascinated and intrigued humans for centuries. It is a universal experience that touches everyone's lives and serves as a reminder of our limited time on this earth. Whether we contemplate our own mortality or grapple with the loss of loved ones, it is an inevitable part of the human condition.
In this category, you will find a compilation of quotes that explore the profound aspects of mortality. These quotes offer insight, reflection, and thought-provoking perspectives on the nature of life's impermanence. They encourage us to ponder the meaning of our existence, confront our fears, and appreciate the preciousness of every moment we have.
From the philosophical musings of ancient philosophers to the poignant words of modern writers and thinkers, these quotes capture the complex emotions and thoughts associated with mortality. They remind us to make the most of our time, find solace in the transient nature of life, and embrace the legacy we leave behind.
Take the time to explore these quotes, and allow them to inspire you to contemplate mortality from different angles. Whether you seek comfort, wisdom, or inspiration, we hope these words will resonate with you and provide a deeper understanding of our shared mortality.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Flora Thompson
— NovelistWhat greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
Antonio Machado
— PoetDeath is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsAfter all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerFidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesOf what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food WriterIf time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorThe most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Chadwick Boseman
— American actorThe best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Craig Stone
— English footballerWe only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.
Andy Warhol
— American ArtistI want to die with my blue jeans on.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorIt must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
Antonio Machado
— PoetDeath is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsI have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerBut when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorGive death a better name or die trying.
Craig Stone
— English footballerA person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsIn a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterNot a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsThe subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIt seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIt seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhat will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?