Quotes about Mortality
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
- Samuel Johnson
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
- James Howell
Brief life is here our portion.
- John Mason Neale
Where all life dies death lives.
- John Milton
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
- Mark Twain
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
- John Barrymore
Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]
- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
- Alice Walker
Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.
- Martin Luther
Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
- Gordon Hinckley
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
- John Donne