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.
We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.Colum Mccann
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The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep.Virgil
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Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly.Mikhail Bulgakov
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Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.Bruce Sterling
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The most optimistic part of life is its mortality… God is a real genius.Rana Zahid Iqbal
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There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.Frank Herbert
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You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.Stieg Larsson
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We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.Marty Rubin
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Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.Ivan Doig
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.Chuck Palahniuk
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.Marcus Aurelius
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Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.Mother Teresa
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The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.John O'Donohue
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Life is only precious because it ends, kid.Rick Riordan
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Mortality was never designed to torture you. It was designed to test you.Toni Sorenson
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain.Alexander Pope
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Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, we'd slaughter children fresh from the womb. But we don't. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever.Daniel Abraham
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There is not love of life without despair about life.Albert Camus