Quotes about Mortality
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
— Victor Hugo
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
— Will Rogers
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
— William Law
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
— Thomas Jefferson
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
— John Donne
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
— Marty Rubin
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
— CS Lewis
The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?
— Marty Rubin
[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
— Richard Baxter
With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.
— Anonymous
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.
— Anonymous
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
— Donald Miller