Quotes about Mortality

Someday death will take us to another star.

Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the following plate was completed in 1886, portraying the unusual subject of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. The work has roused many interpretations, including a depiction of mortality and a prophetic cry of the dangers of tobacco. In the next two years, van Gogh painted two other paintings with skulls, illustrating his fascination with the macabre subject.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.