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Mortality Quotes by Famous Authors

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31. “Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”

Marcus Aurelius

Time’s Urgency, Mortality, Goodness, Action, Life, Legacy

32. “Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.”

W.H. Auden

Fear, Disease, Mortality, Poetic Imagery, Human Vulnerability

33. “Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.”

Aldous Huxley

Time, Mortality, Existence, Poetic Expression, Philosophical Insight, Existential Observation

34. “Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”

Thomas Jefferson

Decay, Body, Mind, Mortality, Human Condition

35. “Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I’ll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!”

William Blake

Mortality, Love, Death, Poetic Expression, Existential Reflection, Emotional Truth

36. “But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.”

Socrates

Mortality, Faith, Uncertainty, Acceptance, Life And Death

37. “But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.”

William Butler Yeats

Sick Children, Changing Things, Chronos Tune, Mortality, Words, Certainty

38. “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburden my soul.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Mortality, Reflection, Release, Philosophical Insight, Existential Urgency, Emotional Honesty

39. “Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”

Sylvia Plath

Immortality, Existence, Insignificance, Fleeting, Mortality, Solitude

40. “Composing mortals with immortal fire.”

W.H. Auden

Creativity, Mortality, Art, Inspiration, Poetic Imagery

41. “Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life. While most people whittle their days chasing another buck, or a little bit more fame and attention, or a little bit more assurance that they’re right or loved, death confronts all of us with a far more painful and important question: What is your legacy? How.”

Mark Manson

Mortality, Legacy, Life, Purpose, Reflection

42. “Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.”

Marcus Aurelius

Death, Life, Time, Awareness, Reflection, Mortality

43. “Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.”

Marcus Aurelius

Acceptance, Life, Mortality, Nature, Time, Reflection

44. “Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man’s life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.”

Marcus Aurelius

Mortality, Time, Life’s Transience, Perspective, Peace, Acceptance

45. “Dead men don’t bite.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Death, Finality, Afterlife, Mortality, Life Truths, Self-reflection

46. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.”

Anne Frank

Mortality, Regret, Appreciation, Life, Reflection

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

William Shakespeare

Death, End, Acceptance, Inevitability, Mortality

48. “Death destroys man, but the idea of death saves him – that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.”

E.M. Forster

Death Paradox, Tragedy Inspiration, Love Strength, Human Resilience, Philosophical Insight, Mortality

49. “Death is a fearful thing.”

William Shakespeare

Death, Fear, Mortality, Life, End

50. “Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

Stephen King

Death Mystery, Burial Secrets, Afterlife, Spirituality, Mortality, Fear

51. “Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.”

Lewis Carroll

Death Reflection, Future vs Past, Life's End, Philosophical Thought, Grief, Mortality

52. “Death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.”

Alexandre Dumas

Death’s Duality, Gentle Friend, Violent Enemy, Mortality, Reflection, Transition

53. “Death is Life’s high meed.”

John Keats

Mortality, Life, Reward, Immortality, Reflection, Existential

54. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

Haruki Murakami

Life And Death, Acceptance Philosophy, Cycle Of Life, Mortality, Reflection, Meaning

55. “Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”

Steve Jobs

Mortality, Perspective, Acceptance, Philosophy, Change