Quotes About Mortality

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she'd had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned.

O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!

Paradise was not far away when I died

Let whoever can win glory before death.

For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.

No windfall or good fortune comes to mortals That isn't paid for in the coin of pain.

The land of the living, sister, Is neither here nor there. We enter it and we leave it. The dead in the land of the dead Are the ones you'll be with longest.

finally the end arrives when the body he was lent collapses and falls prey to its death; ancestral possessions and the goods he hoarded are inherited by another who lets them go with a liberal hand.

But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banqueting, sleeps on its deathbed.

And found myself then thinking: if it were nowadays, This is how Death would summon Everyman.

I shall gain glory or die.

Everybody dies. Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it's a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It's a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments are brief against the expanse of eternity.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

Does killing time damage eternity?

Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Time and death sleep side by side.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.