Quotes About Mortality

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don't accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

count no man happy until he be dead.

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I'll know I died in good health.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.