Quotes about Mortality

in this wonderful human brain of ours there has dawned a realization unknown to the other primates. It is that of the individual, conscious of himself as such, and aware that he, and all that he cares for, will one day die. Fig. 2.2 — Neanderthal Burial This recognition of mortality and the requirement to transcend it is the first great impulse to mythology.

suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life.

You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?

Death was irreversible, he suspected

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

Ng??i ta s? ch?t vì nh?ng gì h? cho là chân lý m?c dù th?t ra nó có th? sai l?m. NhÆ°ng h? không bao gi? ch?u ch?t vì nh?ng gì h? bi?t là gi? d?i.

Nobody on their death bed ever worried about their bank balance.

17The world is passing away, and with it its lusts [the shameful pursuits and ungodly longings]; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?