Quotes About Mortality

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

All men die. Only a few ever live.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.