Quotes about Mortality
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
- William Wordsworth
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
- Alice Hoffman
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man must endure his going hence.
- CS Lewis
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
- Cormac McCarthy
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
- DH Lawrence
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
- Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
- Euripides