Quotes about Mortality
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
- Billy Graham
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
- Martin Luther
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..
- Martin Luther
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.
- Martin Luther
If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
- Martin Luther
Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.
- Martin Luther
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
- John Donne
If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.
- Michelangelo