Mortality Quotes · Page 11

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

— Bryan Fuller

I have one commandment. Be aware of your own mortality. Because as you live and achieve, the clicker is going down.

— Slipknot

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

— Brandon Boyd

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and…

— Frederick Lenz

“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?”

— Malcolm X

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

— Cate Blanchett

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by…

— Hesiod

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality…

— Thomas S. Monson

“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? for ourselves, who know not if…

— Omar Khayyám

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be…

— Robert McNamara

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact…

— Amartya Sen

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for…

— Angus Deaton

“He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat,…

— Giulio Tononi

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp,…

— Oswald Chambers

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and…

— Laurence Fox

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate…

— Margaret Atwood

... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on…

— Thomas Bernhard

Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It…

— Hartman Rector, Jr

Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases…

— Jewel

Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface -…

— David Bentley Hart

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people…

— Woody Allen

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a…

— Nicole Brossard

“Over the years, I have developed a visceral reaction to families and victims expressing surprise at tragedy. Why are we surprised? Why…

— Michael Perry

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

— Robert Breault

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

— Hans Rosling

“Ashes have no fear to burn in hell In your heart's paradise angels dwell Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong…

— Munia Khan

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Here on Earth, we live once and die once. So, whatever you're doing, do it like you're only gonna do it once.

— Terry Mark

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

— Michael Shermer

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

— Roger Caras

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,…

— Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald

“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”

— Hippocrates

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.

— Gretel Ehrlich

“[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.”

— Sonia Sotomayor

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

— Allen Tate

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

— Sting

“We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all…

— Jessica Khoury

“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.”

— Columba Stewart