Quotes about Mortality
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,The vapors weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The best of men are just men at best.
— Alistair Begg
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Life is not yours to take.
— Richard Paul Evans
remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.
— Richard Paul Evans
between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.
— Richard Paul Evans
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached.
— Rick Warren
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— Rob Bell
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
— CS Lewis