584 Quotes About Mortality

At best, one can slow down the aging process, for a while but one can never stop it. Aging will have the final say over the mortal human body...

the earth is eternal and prevailing against the evanescence of each mortal life

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the middling ones, those in their prime, as they say, like beef.

But there was little heart to our lust,only the confusion of not knowinghow long we'd have in our bodies.

All we ask is to be allowed to remain the writers of our own story.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.

My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees, we die from the top.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?