Quotes About Mortality

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.