Quotes about Mortality
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..
— Martin Luther
Therefore nothing were better for us than soon to be conveyed to the last dance, and covered with shovels.
— Martin Luther
If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat.
— Martin Luther
Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.
— Martin Luther
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
— John Donne
If we have been pleased with life ,we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.
— Michelangelo
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
— Milan Kundera
Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust.
— NT Wright
If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.
— NT Wright
Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.
— Nelson Mandela