Quotes about Mortality

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it. ...Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.