Quotes about Mortality
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
- William Saroyan
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
- Toni Morrison
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
- Joseph Brodsky
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
- Emily Bronte
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
- Richard Sibbes
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
- CS Lewis
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
- Andrew Jackson
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
- CS Lewis
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
- John Keats
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
- Alain de Botton