Quotes About Mortality

There is no more final end than death

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

Someday death will take us to another star.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

... And death unloads thee.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.