Quotes about Mortality
Death, thou shalt die.
- John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.
- John Donne
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
- John Donne
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
- John Donne
when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;
- John Donne
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
- John Donne
Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.
- John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.
- John Donne
Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.
- John Donne
O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.
- John Donne
No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die
- John Donne