Quotes about Mortality
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
- John Donne
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
- Drew Barrymore
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
- George Eliot
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
- George Washington
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
- Victor Hugo
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
- Will Rogers
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
- William Law
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
- Thomas Jefferson
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
- John Donne
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
- Marty Rubin
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
- CS Lewis