Quotes about Mortality
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
— George Eliot
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
— Marilyn Monroe
Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
— Mark Batterson
Do you think you are going to live forever? Is life so long you rather rag somebody than be nice to them?
— Mark Harris
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
— Mark Twain
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
— Virginia Woolf
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
— John F. Kennedy
Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.
— Teresa of Avila
In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
— John F. Kennedy