Quotes about Mortality

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can

There is no UHaul behind the hearse.

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.