Quotes About Mortality

A man can get killed in there.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.