Quotes About Mortality

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.

Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom?

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.

You're through in pictures, and plays, and vaudeville, and radio, and everything! You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried.

Xerxes did die,And so must I.

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, what shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

Had Christ the death of death to death Not given death by dying, The gates of life had never been To mortals open lying.

O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.

In dog years, I'm dead.