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Quotes About Mortality

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
~ Joseph Addison
Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
~ Ambrose Bierce
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
~ Francis Quarles
Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
~ Sidney Sheldon
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
~ William Cowper
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
~ Paul Tsongas
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
~ Seneca the Younger
Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.
~ Barbara Wood
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.
~ Anthony Burgess
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.
~ Miguel Syjuco
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
~ Francois Fenelon
Just FYI, in your case, I think it's okay to fear the reaper.
~ Rachel Vincent
Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
~ William Shakespeare
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
~ Wilson Mizner
All fear violence, all are afraid of death.
~ Gautama Buddha
Fear is the touch of death, death reminding us of its existence.
~ Ivan Klíma
As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.
~ Jacqui Holland
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
~ William Shakespeare
Ashes have no fear to burn in hellIn your heart's paradise angels dwellRib cage fastens all sins of the wrongYour bones will sing you mortality's song
~ Munia Khan
The rich people of this world fear only one thing: death
~ Sunday Adelaja
Don't be afraid of death that is inevitable. Be afraid of not truly living.
~ Unknown