Quotes About Mortality

Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

Celebrity is this thing that's unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there's nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.

There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

It's so good to get up in the morning and see a donkey - they're just unbelievably beautiful and funny. My donkey Hector laughs when I walk towards him; he knows mortality when he sees it.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.