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Quotes About Mortality

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
~ Lenny Bruce
Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
~ Nora Ephron
In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
~ Alexander Pope
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
~ William Blake
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
~ Agnes de Mille
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
~ Anne Sexton
Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.
~ Bruce Willis
The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.
~ Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
~ Frank Peretti
If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.
~ Kazuya Minekura
He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
~ Barbara Tuchman
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
~ Bill Nighy
Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
~ Bruce Willis
oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.
~ Christopher Fry
I believe we will start believing in God as we get closer to death.
~ Howard Stern
God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.
~ Stephen King
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
~ Steven Erikson
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
~ Stevie Smith