mortality Quotes

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.

Time, the devourer of all things.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.