Quotes About Mortality

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

The big change is the proximity to death.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.