Quotes about Mortality

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.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

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.

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?

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.

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.

If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

In the good days remember also death.

To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It is not the sort of suffering which is inseparable from this mortal life, but the suffering which is an essential part of the specifically Christian life. It is not suffering per se but suffering-and-rejection, and not rejection for any cause or conviction of our own, but rejection for the sake of Christ.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.