Quotes About Mortality

In ten years time I'll be… (dead) sixty.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.

Death is the last limit of all things.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Death keeps no calendar.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.

For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

The leading cause of death is birth.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.