Quotes about Mortality
This life soon be over … Heaven last always
— Alice Walker
We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.
— Joel Osteen
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
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