Quotes about Mortality
The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
- Billy Graham
Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.
- Rachel Hauck
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
- Karl Barth
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
- Karl Barth
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
- Joseph Addison
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
- Laurence Sterne
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
- Cicero
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- Milan Kundera
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
- Tina Fey