Quotes About Mortality

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

And die with decency.

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

Death strips all men of dignity.

I looked Death right in the face.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

Man has created death.

Death will be too late to bring us aid.

I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

I long to kiss the image of my death.