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Mortality Quotes by Famous Authors

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31. “The only certainties in life are death and taxes.”

Mark Twain

Life, Certainty, Mortality, Humor, Reality

32. “Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.”

Dalai Lama

Impermanence, Life, Lessons, Mortality, Loss

33. “I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.”

Steve Jobs

Life, Perspective, Technology, Mortality, Family

34. “We all have a short period of time on this earth—We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I’ve got to accomplish a lot of these things while I’m young.”

Steve Jobs

Time, Purpose, Youth, Greatness, Mortality

35. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.”

Steve Jobs

Life, Mortality, Perspective, Fear, Reality

36. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

Steve Jobs

Mortality, Perspective, Choices, Life Lessons, Philosophy

37. “Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.”

Steve Jobs

Fear, Mortality, Courage, Perspective, Life

38. “Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

Steve Jobs

Mortality, Change, Perspective, Philosophy, Renewal

39. “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

40. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

Steve Jobs

Life, Mortality, Authenticity, Courage, Purpose

41. “We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.”

George Orwell

Mortality, Future, Hope, Legacy, Sacrifice

42. “The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb.”

George Orwell

Mortality, Illness, Death, Vulnerability, Suffering

43. “If we don't know life, how can we know death?”

Confucius

Life, Understanding, Mortality, Reflection, Wisdom

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

Anne Frank

Mortality, Regret, Appreciation, Life, Reflection

45. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

Ernest Hemingway

Mortality, Existence, Legacy, Life, Reflection

46. “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.”

Ernest Hemingway

Mortality, Stories, Reflection, Life, Humanity

47. “Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

Ernest Hemingway

Mortality, Storytelling, Truth, Reflection, Life

48. “The smallest coffins are the heaviest.”

Ernest Hemingway

Loss, Grief, Reflection, Life, Mortality

49. “And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.”

Ernest Hemingway

Youth, Mortality, Reflection, Happiness, Life

50. “No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it’s not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.”

Ernest Hemingway

War, Reality, Reflection, Humanity, Mortality

51. “All diseases run into one, old age.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aging, Mortality, Life, Time, Health

52. “God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Mortality, Belief, Legacy, Humanity

53. “The final reward of the dead – to die no more.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Reward, Finality, Peace, Mortality

54. “I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living – our dread of coming to an end.”

Thomas Edison

Philosophy, Life, Existence, Belief, Mortality