Mortality

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”

“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players”

“any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death”

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once”

“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good”

“Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room”

“Do not go gentle into that good night”

“Excuse my dust”

“For whom the bell tolls”

“Grief is the price we pay for love”

“How Could I Feel Like a Hero When Only Five Men in My Platoon of 45 Survived?”

“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man”

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space”

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing”

“I'll never make the mistake of being 70 years old again”

“If we don't end war, war will end us”

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it”

“Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us”

“Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change”

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”

“Once You Are Dead, You Are Made for Life”

“One dies twice, I see it plainly; to cease to love and be loved is an unbearable death; to cease to live is nothing”

“Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum”

“So it goes”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living”

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced”

“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced”

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for”

“The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead”

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way”

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can”

“There are two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'Thy will be done.'”

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning”

“They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”

“Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us”

“You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere”