Quotes about Mortality
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
One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
- Frederick Buechner
She stands — she sits — she staggers — she falls — she groans — she dies — and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.
- Frederick Douglass