Quotes About Mortality

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.