mortality Quotes

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Only entropy comes easy.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.