Quotes about Mortality
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
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