Mortality Quotes · Page 12

Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we…

— Kathleen H. Hughes

“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

Getting older has compensations, though when you hit 50 you become very aware of your own mortality and it makes you reassess.

— Caroline Quentin

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering

— Cassandra Clare

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

— Tammy Baldwin

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died…

— Mary Steenburgen

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the…

— Bertrand Russell

“In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm…

— Atul Gawande

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious…

— William Shakespeare

“Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come…

— Robin Hobb

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming…

— Anonymous

“He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from…

— Rupert Thomson

Cancer makes people think about mortality. It scares your friends and family. And many cancer patients, consciously or otherwise, try to buffer…

— Suleika Jaouad

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that…

— Dan Millman

Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the…

— Mark Helprin

A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not…

— Emily Deschanel

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final…

— John F. Kennedy

There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever…

— David A. Bednar

my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must…

— Andre Dubus

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity…

— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

“I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and pulled a…

— Annie Dillard

“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It…

— Stanisław Lem

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time…

— Robert Breault

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that…

— Anne Rice

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother…

— William S. Burroughs

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

— Henry Louis Mencken

“I was not like them. Are you not? The voice was my uncle's, resonant and deep. Then you must think, Circe. What…

— Madeline Miller

“We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

— William Dean Howells

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

— Amartya Sen

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

— Mohsin Hamid

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

— John Tavener

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

— Holly Hunter

“Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

— LeCrae

“We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.”

— Colum McCann