Quotes about Mortality
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
— Psalm 90:10
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