mortality Quotes

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.