82 Movie Quotes about Mortality (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: May 26, 2026

Memorable quotes about mortality, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

31 He had such a knowledge of the dark side, he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.

Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

32 We all have it coming, Kid.

Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven

33 Soon this trickle of blood, these few bones, this net woven of nerves and arteries will be dust. No choice.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

34 I am man our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our own mortality.

Quote from Young Frankenstein (1974)

35 Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

Quote from Julius Caesar (1953)

36 You're really lucky you can have this attitude toward death. I think I'm afraid of death 24 hours a day. I swear.

Julie Delpy as Céline in Before Sunrise

37 This is awful. I wish I was dead. -But, Orlando, you are dead. -What? Oh, yes, so I am. What a life!

Kenneth Williams as Dr Orlando Watt; Fenella Fielding as Valeria Watt in Carry On Screaming!

38 You told me I was strong as an ox. -Well, even an ox dies.

John Wayne as J.B. Books; James Stewart as Dr. Hostetler in The Shootist

39 The old windbag. What an infernal fuss. After all, dying is only a part of living.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

40 Living and dying. Dying and living. Life is a cycle. Life and death. There's no difference in the end.

Quote from Ninja vs. Shaolin Guards (1984)