Quotes about Mortality
All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.
— Og Mandino
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
— William Faulkner
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
— Paulo Coelho
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
— Billy Graham
Death is the gate of life.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
— Billy Graham
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
— Victor Hugo
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
— Oscar Wilde
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.
— Lou Holtz
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
— Mark Twain