Quotes About Mortality

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Of all things that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Taken from the Odyssey.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

We are, after all, not gods.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth, Then, alas! we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages.

Future Perfect Where you were before you were born, and where you are when you're not anymore might be very close. Might be the same place, though neither is as slippery as being here but imagining where you will have been- that point where things land, are finished, over, and gone but not yet.

My father lived to the age where he attained a deep luster, but never too shiny that you didn't believe him for one minute, may we all understand our own quitting time so well.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this, either by prayers or spells. Children cry about it, but men and women do not cry. They have to endure.

Your mind resists death with all its might.

No surprise you're in pain, no surprise you're dead. You're old. That's what is meant to happen. We don't care that you forget you're old. We know you're old.

Good Lord. The first person she sees is Mick Drummond, with his ancient bobbing head. Would that man never die? Was he immortal? Was he real?

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.

He was surprised to find himself close to tears, because it occurred to him that if he were to die, Ray would be snatched up like a too-good-to-be-true deal at the supermarket, and someone else could very easily love him the way he deserved to be loved.

He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia.

pain, no surprise you're dead. You're old. That's what is meant to happen. We don't care that you forget you're old. We know you're old. Rose thinks of that poem she used to like and is pleased with herself when she can remember the first few lines. Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

Love, live, life, and Im dead.

Oh God, Oh God we're all gonna die doesn't really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Maybe handling her memory every day for five years had made it fade, like the mortal thing it was.

I know you are drunk on youth and immortality, but this is how you die

It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. I'm thirty-one now, and my mother is dead. (4)

Everyone becomes a genius when they die young.