Mortality Fate Quotes

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

There is no more final end than death.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

When you reach your peak it's time to die.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.