Quotes About Mortality

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?