Quotes about Mortality

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?

The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

The thing about death is it reminds you the story we are telling has finality.

Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die.

Surely none are so crazy as those who are content to live unprepared to die. Surely the unbelief of men is the most amazing thing in the world.

As I just told Miriam, we'll die a hundred times before the day finally comes if we give in to fear.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.