Quotes about Mortality

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him to it.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever.

You can't take a life and walk off and leave it. Life is life. Precious. And the dead you kill is yours. They stay with you anyway, in your mind. So it's a better thing, a more better thing to have the bones right there with you wherever you go. That way, it frees up your mind.

Had he lived, grown up to have flaws, human failings like deception, foolishness and ignorance, would he be so easy to adore or be even worthy of adoration?

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birth-day of our eternity; and it is the only way to it.