Quotes About Mortality

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, he dieth not, unless the appointed time, the limit of his life's span, coincide; nor does the man who by the hearth at home sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

Call no man happy till he is dead.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Death was for-the other people.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

Is death the greatest evil that can happen to anyone?

Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.

Life is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.

It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards more than one of those present remembered that moment.

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

People who ought to die of shock and exposure don't die of shock and exposure, et cetera, et cetera. The human frame is tougher than one can imagine possible. Moreover, in my experience, a physical shock is more often fatal than a mental shock.

when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.