Quotes about Mortality
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
— Mark Twain
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
— John Barrymore
Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
— Alice Walker
Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.
— Martin Luther
Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
— Gordon Hinckley
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
— John Donne
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
— Samuel Johnson
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
— Thomas a Kempis
You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
— Reba McEntire
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
— Samuel Johnson
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
— St. Augustine