Mortality Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Mortality.
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“Immortality”
“Impermanence”
“Philip, remember that thou art mortal.”
“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
“Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.”
“Mortality is man's invention; not in the logic of life.”
“You must drink quickly as from a rapid stream that will not always flow.”
“Memento mori.”
“So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;
Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.”
“To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.”
“It's our mortality that defines us, Soran. It's part of the truth of our existence.”
“That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
Be crumbled into dust.”
“Consider
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:—
We are as they;
Like them we fade away
As doth a leaf.”
“I wrote my name upon the sand,
And trusted it would stand for aye;
But, soon, alas! the refluent sea
Had washed my feeble lines away.”
“"O Charidas, what of the underworld?"
"Great darkness."
"And what of the resurrection?"
"A lie."
"And Pluto?"
"A fable; we perish utterly."”
“Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!”
“To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.”
“You mortals are so obtuse! Why do you persist in believing that life and death are such static and rigid concepts? Why I can take your life and give it back to you again with the snap of a finger!”