Quotes about Mortality
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
- Proverbs 5:11
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- Proverbs 7:26
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- Proverbs 11:7
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Proverbs 16:25
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 2:16
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- Ecclesiastes 2:18
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Ecclesiastes 3:21
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:3