584 Quotes About Mortality

Yet a world in which no one, from policymakers to adolescents, can imagine themselves as abject corpses—a world consisting only of thrusting, vigorous men walking boldly out of frame—will surely prove a demented and difficult place in which to live. A world of illusion.

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin.

Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

You can't taste the glory of that person, Who pass the the gate of mortality , Which is guarded by stupidity

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more true. - In the Snowy Night Woods

Mortality was never designed to torture you. It was designed to test you.

I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.