Quotes about Mortality

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.