Quotes About Mortality

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!

Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!

Dead men never pick up their trophies.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.