mortality Quotes

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

There's no one who has been living for centuries.