Quotes About Mortality

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Cake and tea or death?

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.