Quotes about Mortality

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

The silver swan, who living had no note,When death approached unlocked her silent throat;Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:Farewell, all joys; O death, come close mine eyes;More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.

He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.