Quotes about Mortality
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
— Albert Einstein
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
— Ernest Hemingway
Authority forgets a dying king.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
— Samuel Johnson
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
— Paulo Coelho
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
— Epicurus
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— Thomas Watson
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
— Paulo Coelho
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
— Francis de Sales
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
— Joseph Heller
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
— John Milton
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
— Henry Ward Beecher