Mortality Quotes · Page 9

“Take too much time, and time will take you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

— Joan D. Vinge

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

— Djuna Barnes

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

— Julianne Moore

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

— Euripides

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

— Christopher Plummer

I've been aware of my own mortality since I was 12.

— David Baddiel

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

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

Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,…

— George Pattison

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a…

— Jon Krakauer

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty…

— Carl Sagan

Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery…

— Henry Ford

Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered…

— Denise Levertov

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know.…

— Conor Oberst

“Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and…

— Sue Grafton

“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.…

— Anne Carson

“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them…

— John Graunt

It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In your 20s, crises tend to be about whether you are making the correct decisions for the rest of your life, namely…

— Oliver Robinson

“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was…

— Lance Armstrong

“Each October I walk into the woods looking for bones: rabbit skulls, a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer with the…

— Charles Rafferty

“One of the facts that has been confirmed over the past decade of research is the higher incidence of cardiovascular deaths compared…

— Kelly O'Neill Young

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only…

— Alain de Botton

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

— John Rzeznik

“mortality is a living critique of the divine,”

— Walter Mosley

“His mortality was suddenly everywhere at once.”

— Hugh Howey

“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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