Quotes About Mortality

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.