Quotes About Mortality

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next

God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I've always wished to make a god.

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

We are all innocent, until we die.

People living without God dies first spiritually and then physically

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.