Quotes About Mortality

The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

The good die first.

Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish;—be it so!

Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade   Of that which once was great is pass'd away.

I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.

And when I die, put it on my stone. God said, Sucker get your bad ass home. I wasn't Superman. I wasn't Superman

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

It's not death people are afraid of. It's life.

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

Every natural man is a man who "dies in a tent" [Num. 19:14]; his physical body is a tent, and the one who is in the tent is dead.

For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life, thought death.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

schlafen die kleinen Scheiben des Todes, wie ich verachte sie" which means sleep those tiny slices of death how i despise them

Je ne vais jamais au lit sans réfléchir que le lendemain peut-être (si jeune que je sois) je ne serai plus là...; et pourtant personne, de tous ceux qui me connaissent, ne peut dire que je sois chagrin ou triste dans ma conversation...

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

The key here, I think, is to not think of death as an end. But ... but ... think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

My relationship with death remains the same -- I'm strongly against it.

It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune.

I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.