Quotes about Mortality
We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
— Philip Yancey
But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can
— RT Kendall
There is no UHaul behind the hearse.
— Denzel Washington
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
— Dale Carnegie
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— John Maxwell
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Seneca
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
— Drew Barrymore
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
— George Eliot
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
— George Washington
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
— Henry David Thoreau