Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

You never know how much time you have left.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.