Quotes about Mortality

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

You have started, whether you recognize that fact or not. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years of not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is our life. The day comes when we die.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

The silver swan, who living had no note,When death approached unlocked her silent throat;Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:Farewell, all joys; O death, come close mine eyes;More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.

He that is today a king tomorrow shall die.

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.

Then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom?

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end.