Quotes about Mortality
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
— Epicurus
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— Thomas Watson
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
— Paulo Coelho
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
— Francis de Sales
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
— Joseph Heller
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
— John Milton
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
— Samuel Johnson
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
— George Eliot
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
— Thomas a Kempis
I have only one curiosity left: death.
— Coco Chanel
Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.
— Philip Yancey