Quotes about Mortality
If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
History is but a collection of epitaphs.
— Elbert Hubbard
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
— Anonymous
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
— John Updike
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
— William Faulkner
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort
Men die and they are not happy.
— Albert Camus
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
— Henry Ward Beecher