Quotes about Mortality
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
— Og Mandino
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
— Og Mandino
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
— Og Mandino
There is only one thing we cannot have—eternal life, and, by God, whence did that concept come into our heads, that idea of being immortal?
— Olga Tokarczuk
The same fate awaits me too, and Oddball, and the Deer outside; one day we shall all be nothing more than corpses.
— Olga Tokarczuk
We live in a state of siege. If one takes a close look at each fragment of a moment, one might choke with terror. Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But
— Os Guinness
Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.
— Os Guinness
When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.
— Paul David Tripp
death is literally all around us. We cannot run and we cannot hide and we have no ability to defeat it. Death lives at our address, and there is no escaping.
— Paul David Tripp