Quotes About Mortality

I think he tried to live every day just so he wouldn't die.

Women, every powerful man is becoming weak until he dies. Men, every beautiful woman is becoming less beautiful until she dies. Yet there is a deeper beauty and a deeper power and a deeper love.

In ten years they would be dead, deported or in leadership positions.

Remember me," whispers the dust.

Living doesn't do you any good,' he replied. 'It kills us all.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

So Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

So Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

My days are swifter than a weaverís shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?