Quotes about Mortality

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.