Quotes About Mortality

Men die when they are finished living...

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Like most doctors, the fanciest ones, he seemed offensively healthy, as if he kept the real secret of vitality to himself. He would live forever and people would crumble and die around him. You were supposed to feel like death after seeing him, in terms of your complexion, your posture, your whole body. If necessary, this doctor would eat you to survive.

like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

Humans do not die simply because of Adam's sin, but because of Adam's and their own sin.

I know death comes. Ive seen too much death, young death.

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.

Toda grandeza acaba: las montañas se desmoronan, y hechas polvo, van al fondo del mar; los imperios se derriban, y hechos pedazos van al fondo de la historia; las glorias se apagan, y apenas dejan chispas en las lejanías de lo pasado; el sol se apagará también, todo es cuestión de tiempo, y no dejará más que una osamenta fría rodando por el espacio.

Vivimos de prisa, y, como nuestra existencia es cada día más corta en razón á la celeridad con que caminamos, naturalmente queremos abarcar mucho y muchas cosas en breve tiempo, siempre ante el temor de llegar demasiado tarde y de que otros nos lleven la delantera.

Considerad que, antes de que nacierais, todo lo que veis arriba existió por miles de siglos, y por miles de siglos existirá después que os muráis. Vivimos sólo un instante

No quiero yo alas ni alones, ni andar entre ángeles sosos que tocan el arpa. Déjenme a mí de arpas y acordeones y de fulgores celestes. Venga mi vida mortal, y salud y amor, y todo lo que deseo.

In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb. His eyesight had never recovered from his torment on the ceiling of the Sistine, and by this point in his life he was almost blind. He was sculpting more by feel than by sight—and yet he persevered, even trying new carving techniques right up until six days before his death.

Thus it is that bodies shut in tombs often preserve their original shape until the outside air reaches them and reduces them to dust.

The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Work as if you were to live a hundred years,Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

there will be sleeping enough in the grave....

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.