Quotes about Mortality

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?