Quotes about Mortality

Show me the man what aint going to die, bless Jesus.

Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.

Carme told them she couldn't remember what she felt, but she realized it's hard to die, and to invite death is cowardice.

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.