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Quotes About Mortality

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
~ Jim Morrison
I'm gonna live till I die.
~ Frank Sinatra
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
~ William Penn
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death
~ Ludwig Borne
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
~ Robert Cody
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
~ Woody Allen
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
~ George Eliot
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death
~ Publilius Syrus
The only real equality is in the cemetery
~ German proverb
Death cancels everything but truth
~ Proverb
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
~ Phoebe Cary
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
~ John Donne
I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth
~ John Adams
Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.
~ Alfred Adler
All men think all men mortal, but themselves
~ Edward Young
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
~ Unknown
God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die
~ Lucan
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
~ Unknown
Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
~ Diana Vreeland
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
~ Marilyn Monroe