Quotes About Mortality

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

Brave men die in battle.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

A man can die but once.