Quotes About Mortality

Death wears many faces, but it's stench is always the same.

I'm pretty afraid of death. People have told me that they're not afraid, but I certainly am. The things of the world matter to me. It's hard to imagine letting go.

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

The dead have a presence.

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I'll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

Death devours all lovely things.

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.