Quotes About Mortality

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

When I wake up in the morning, I immediately check the morning paper. If my name is not in the obituaries, I get up

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; Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new, and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR

The body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the cover of an old book (it's contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and guilding), lies here, food for worms But the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new and more perfect edition, corrected and amended, by the Author.

There is ample time to sleep; after death.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself;

nothing is certain in life except death and taxes

the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,

Work as if you were to live 100 years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow.

One disease, long life; no disease, short life.

A cowardly man thinks he will ever live, if warfare he avoids; but old age will give him no peace, though spears may spare him.

Life is in fact mortal, and the immortal things are flesh, energy, individuality, and spirit in its various guises.

He had a kind of urgent drive to be forever producing something, to get involved in more and more projects, to leave traces. To the people who, like Claire Nancy, rebuked him sometimes for publishing too much, he replied: 'I can't help it. It's my way of fighting against death.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

Even one death is horrible.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Even the most achieved life ends up in the hospital with your body and brain falling into pieces.