Quotes about Mortality
The dead were to be envied. It was the living who had to suffer from loneliness and distrust.
— Graham Greene
So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich and their homes become ever more splendid. For when they die, they take nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.
— Greg Laurie
Well, I think life is precious because you can't watch it again. I mean you can believe in an after life if that makes you feel better but once you realize you're not going to be around forever, I think that's what makes life so magical.
— Ricky Gervais
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.
— Robert Brault
Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
— LM Montgomery
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
— LM Montgomery
Cissy Gay is dying,' she said, 'and it's a shame and disgrace that she is dying in a Christian community with no one to do anything for her. Whatever she's been or done, she's a human being.
— LM Montgomery
If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?
— Richard Baxter
Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.
— Moby
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.
— Abraham Lincoln
In the good days remember also death.
— Aesop