mortality Quotes

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Death is a fearful thing.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.