82 Movie Quotes about Mortality (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 Am I going to die? -If I said you'd live another 100 years, you'd call me a liar.

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh; Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion in The Big Heat (1953)

42 I mean, we all have things we want to do in this life. I do, you do. Before we get a chance to do 'em, some window falls on us. Some truck flattens you or you catch some disease.

Quote from Captain Ron

43 One place they never leave. You know, 63 years I live in one place: the house of my body. Move in when I born, move out when I die. -You bet. -Yes, sir.

Quote from Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

44 I'm just a machine with hundreds of parts that will eventually wear out.

Quote from Mad Monster Party? (1967)

45 I can still sense death in the air. -There is still death in the air. It is just as much undermined today as ever.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Vitus Werdegast; Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

46 We immortals are few, but mortals are many.

Quote from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

47 So, these are mortals? Do they all act this way towards one another? It seems so cruel compared to our world.

Quote from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

48 It's not a good thing to be as famous as you think you are. -And why's that? -The more famous you are, the sooner you die.

Quote from The Green Jade Statuette (1977)

49 You know what you think about when you're lying here? You know you're gonna die, and you think... that's all right. You lived a long time. You had a family that loved you.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger

50 And old age? That poor flesh will rot one day. And at the end, nothing but death. This is the terrible heritage of man. -I accept that inheritance.

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses; Silvana Mangano as Circe in Ulysses (1954)