Quotes about Mortality

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

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.

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.

I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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.

But let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee.

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up towers.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow into manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with its kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.