Quotes about Mortality
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
if you are 42 years old, you only have 36 more Christmases left with your family. If you are 57 years old, you only have 21 more summers to enjoy at the lake. If you're 63 years old, that's 15 more birthday cakes with your family. Fifteen! That's nothing! It makes you view life more seriously, doesn't it?
— Terri Savelle Foy