Finite Lifespan Quotes

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Time is limited. Time is not forever. How many more moons and sunrises will you see in your life rise and fall? There's not that many! It's a small amount! So, for people to be saying with this attitude "ohh, I'll get on with my life, and my greatness, sometime." No, you can't!

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time.

Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!