67 Movie Quotes about Mortality (Sound Clips) - page 6

Last updated on: August 13, 2025

Memorable quotes about mortality, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

Quote from Ulysses (1954)

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

Quote from Ulysses (1954)

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

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

56 Remember, thou art mortal.

Quote from 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 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.

Quote from The Westerner (1940)

60 We all die soon enough. It's a case of either us or them, isn't it?

Quote from Instant Kung Fu Man