Quotes About Mortality

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

This thought is as a death.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]

I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.