Quotes About Mortality

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Dead men have no victory.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.