Quotes about Mortality
The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
— Andrew Carnegie
Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
— Amy Grant
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.
— Marina Abramovic
The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are.
— Peter Scazzero
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
— Jonathan Edwards
shuffled off this mortal coil.
— Joseph Campbell
Laws change; people die; the land remains.
— Abraham Lincoln
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
— Euripides
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
— Muhammad Ali
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Greek philosopher said, 'All men think it is only the other man who is mortal'. The way we scurry about accumulating things is testimony to our unspoken doctrine that we are exceptions to the law of death. The events of September 11, 2001, were a shocking reminder to millions of Americans of something we should have already understood - our mortality.
— Randy Alcorn
We can't take material things with us when we die, but we do take our friendships to Heaven, and one day they'll be renewed.
— Randy Alcorn