Quotes about mortality

We stress too much for a life that can end at anytime. Make sure to live.

May you live every day of your life.

Imagine reading a book with no way to turn back the page, how carefully would you read it? That's life.

The sound of an ambulance is disturbing, until it stops at your gate.

The good in life does not depend upon life’s length, but upon the use we make of it.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long if you know how to use it.

He who should teach men to die would teach them to live well.

Neither the sun nor death can be gazed upon steadily.

Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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

Sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

God is dead.

Give me liberty, or give me death!

Do not go gentle into that good night.

So many books, so little time.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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

I hope the exit is joyful, and I hope never to return.

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death, but on life.