Quotes About Mortality

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

and say to corruption, ëYou are my father,í and to the worm, ëMy mother,í or ëMy sister,í

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ëWhere is he?í

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.