69 Movie Quotes about Mortality (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Oct 8, 2025

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.

51 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)

52 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

53 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; Kirk Douglas as Circe in Ulysses (1954)

54 Achilles, still sour faced and brooding. -What other face would you expect a dead man to wear?

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses; Kirk Douglas as Achilles in Ulysses (1954)

55 Marcus Aurelius, our Caesar does not look well. -Dying men never do.

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

56 Remember, thou art mortal.

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

57 Yes, death is quite horrible.

Quote from Strife for Mastery (1978)

58 My days are numbered and the number is three. It's hopeless.

Dom DeLuise as Fagin in Oliver & Company (1988)

59 You know, when I'm dead and buried, all I'm going to have around to prove that I was here was some shower curtain rings that didn't fall down. Great legacy, huh?

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

60 And man that is born of woman has but a short time to live. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as if it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Gary Cooper as Cole Harden in The Westerner (1940)

69 Movie Quotes about Mortality (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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