Mortality Quotes · Page 10

“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

“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

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

“[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

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

— Giulio Tononi

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

— Atul Gawande

“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

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

“Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh…

— H. Rider Haggard

“In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Everything we do, we do as…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We observed a direct relationship between body weight and mortality. By that I mean that the thinnest fifth of men experienced the…

— Joel Fuhrman

The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid…

— William Farr

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

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

— David Bentley Hart

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

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

— Michael Perry

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

— Nicole Brossard

“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

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

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

— Allen Tate

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

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

— Tammy Baldwin

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

— Ernest Becker

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

— Amartya Sen

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

— William Dean Howells

“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

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

— Mohsin Hamid

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

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

— John Tavener

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

— Colum McCann

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

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