Quotes About Mortality

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.These are called true stories.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

Albert Camus did not know he was summing up modern photojournalism when he wrote:"Will I kill myself or have a cup of coffee

An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?