Quotes about Mortality
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
- St. Augustine
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- Epicurus
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
- Charles Spurgeon
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
- Michelangelo
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
- Edith Schaeffer
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
- Og Mandino
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Steve Jobs
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
- CS Lewis
We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
- John Calvin
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
- Virginia Woolf
Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.
- Frank Peretti