Quotes about Mortality
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
— Anonymous
'Tis better to buy a small bouquet And give to your friend this very day, Than a bushel of roses white and red To lay on his coffin after he's dead.
— Anonymous
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
— Anonymous
Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.
— Anonymous
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
— Anonymous
Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
— Anonymous
When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.
— Anonymous
I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
— Anonymous
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
— Anonymous
A living dog is better than a dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
— Anonymous
But let not God speak with us, lest we die.
— Anonymous
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
— Anonymous