Quotes about Mortality
I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'
— Melissa McCarthy
Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
— AW Tozer
If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.
— Epictetus
Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
— Oscar Wilde
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. and the portrait in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty. p 349
— Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
— Oscar Wilde
Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up each grated screen, And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
— Oscar Wilde
Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?
— Oscar Wilde
As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?
— Dale Carnegie
I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.
— Dale Carnegie
Humility leads to perfect death. Humility means the giving up of self and the taking of the place of perfect nothingness before.
— Dallas Willard