Quotes about Mortality

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

He who dies with no friends cannot make friends after death.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Life will always be forever But remember you will not So be remembered forever

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.