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Mortality Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.”

Abraham Lincoln

Courage, Mortality, Fearlessness, Acceptance, Legacy

2. “One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it’s time to go for good.”

Albert Einstein

Life, Tension, Mortality, Acceptance, Existence

3. “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”

Albert Einstein

Life, Mortality, Dignity, Choice, Reflection

4. “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare

Life, Mortality, Futility, Existence, Philosophy

5. “Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

William Shakespeare

Death, Mortality, Sorrow, Fate, Decay

6. “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

William Shakespeare

Power, Grandeur, Mortality, Humility, Perspective

7. “Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.”

William Shakespeare

Mortality, Dust, Youth, Equality, Life

8. “So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”

William Shakespeare

Wisdom, Youth, Irony, Mortality, Life

9. “Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

William Shakespeare

Love, Death, Irony, Mortality, Nature

10. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

William Shakespeare

Dreams, Life, Sleep, Mortality, Mystery

11. “Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

William Shakespeare

Death, End, Acceptance, Inevitability, Mortality

12. “Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”

William Shakespeare

Time, Waves, Life, Mortality, End

13. “Death is a fearful thing.”

William Shakespeare

Death, Fear, Mortality, Life, End

14. “We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

William Shakespeare

Time, Subjects, Mortality, Passing, Impermanence

15. “I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Solitude, Mortality, Strength, Life, Independence

16. “I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.”

Winston Churchill

Life, Exhaustion, Reflection, Transition, Mortality

17. “The cemetery is full of indispensable people.”

Winston Churchill

Indispensable, Mortality, Irony, Life, Legacy

18. “Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.”

Oprah Winfrey

Life, Presence, Appreciation, Mindfulness, Mortality

19. “The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you will die, you must live now. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands – you are the single biggest influence in your life.”

Oprah Winfrey

Mortality, Empowerment, Purpose, Presence, Responsibility

20. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life, Quality, Fulfillment, Values, Mortality

21. “I could still be forgotten when I’m dead. I don’t really care what happens when I’m dead.”

John Lennon

Legacy, Mortality, Fame, Indifference, Life

22. “I’ll probably be popped off by some loony.”

John Lennon

Fear, Fame, Mortality, Humor, Prediction

23. “Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.”

John Lennon

Mortality, Fame, Reflection, Life, Humanity

24. “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”

C.S. Lewis

Mortality, Life, Reflection, Death, Value

25. “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.”

C.S. Lewis

Humanity, Mortality, Value, Perspective, Reflection