Quotes about Mortality
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
- Psalm 90:12
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Psalm 102:3
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalm 102:11
I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
- Psalm 102:24
For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.
- Psalm 103:14
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalm 103:15
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Psalm 104:29
It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
- Psalm 115:17
O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
- Psalm 144:3
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalm 144:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Psalm 146:4
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Proverbs 5:5