Quotes about Mortality
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
— Emily Bronte
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
— Richard Sibbes
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
— CS Lewis
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
— Andrew Jackson
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
— CS Lewis
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
— John Keats
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
— Alain de Botton
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
— Albert Einstein
It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
— Ernest Hemingway
Authority forgets a dying king.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
— Samuel Johnson
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
— Paulo Coelho