Quotes About Mortality

I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

A living dog is better than a dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

But let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

They say, "There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us." Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture.

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you should be in raised-up towers.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

The land of darkness and the shadow of death.

Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow into manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with its kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Man says, "What, when I am dead shall I then be brought forth alive?" Will not man remember that We created him aforetime, when he was nothing?

So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

The king of terrors.

I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.

The land of the living.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

He who dies with no friends cannot make friends after death.