Quotes about Mortality

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.

No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now. I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought.

For we have been there in the books and out of the books—and where we go, if we are any good, there you can go as we have been. A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.

He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.' Damned fine, eh?