Quotes about Mortality
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Psalm 37:36
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Psalm 39:4
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalm 39:5
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalm 39:6
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalm 39:13
For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
- Psalm 44:25
that he should live on forever and not see decay.
- Psalm 49:9
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
- Psalm 49:10
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalm 49:12
For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
- Psalm 49:17
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
- Psalm 49:19
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 62:9