584 Quotes About Mortality

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

We cannot predict our tragedies.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

Escaping death is a temporary victory.

Death is the firewood that keeps the fire of life burning.