Quotes about Mortality
Any live man is better than any dead man.
— William Faulkner
the long sleep that outlasts love
— William Faulkner
Show me the man what aint going to die, bless Jesus.
— William Faulkner
Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.
— William Faulkner
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
— Billy Graham
There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whether one says: the body of humiliation is transformed into a body of glory, or says, the corruptible puts on incorruption, the mortal immortality, makes no difference whatever as to the principle of continuity.
— Geerhardus Vos
Carme told them she couldn't remember what she felt, but she realized it's hard to die, and to invite death is cowardice.
— Isabel Allende