Quotes about Mortality

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.

they've all come to the same end. They are dust beneath the soil. All that is left behind lies in the people who remain. And the stories.

Someday death will take us to another star.

Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the following plate was completed in 1886, portraying the unusual subject of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. The work has roused many interpretations, including a depiction of mortality and a prophetic cry of the dangers of tobacco. In the next two years, van Gogh painted two other paintings with skulls, illustrating his fascination with the macabre subject.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.