Quotes about Mortality
To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
— Samuel Johnson
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
— Thomas a Kempis
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
— John Donne
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
— CS Lewis
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Life is hard, but death is even harder.
— Peter Kreeft
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
— William Hazlitt
We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.
— AW Tozer
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
— Elbert Hubbard
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
— Elie Wiesel
And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.
— Arianna Huffington