Quotes About Mortality

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

He that dies this year is quit for the next.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.