Quotes about Mortality

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.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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.

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

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.

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.

Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?

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?

I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.

Humility leads to perfect death. Humility means the giving up of self and the taking of the place of perfect nothingness before.

The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith — enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.