Quotes about Mortality
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
- George Eliot
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
- Marcus Aurelius
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
- Martin Luther
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
- Publilius Syrus
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
- Publilius Syrus
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
- Richard Paul Evans
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
- Herman Melville
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
- Jack Kerouac
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
- John Milton
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
- John Milton
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
- Samuel Johnson