Quotes About Mortality

All birds and men are sure to die but songs may live forever.

Now he stood up, uninvited, and began to pray in a loud voice. "Our Father, bless this food to our foul, corrupt bodies, as full of sin as a dead dog is full of maggots…." Murdo

El hombre era el único animal que acababa con la vida de los de su propia especie por millones

And like: "Why should one want to wake up dead anyway?" If the glorious birth-to-death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have . . . if our grand and exhilarating Fight of Life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after—then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

the hand of death touches every love that the Descenders profess for all and sundry, tears also streaming down the face with "compassion" written all over it.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

To be or not to be that is the question.

Before the tears of the eyes dry outLet them sprinkle words on the paper Life is short and the man shall dieBut the words shall live on forever...

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

Todas las cosas se derrumban y dejan de ser, y no hay nada que pase más rápido que la vida de un hombre feliz.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

WHAT WE GIVE TO THE POOR IS WHAT WE TAKE WITH US WHEN WE DIE.