Mortality Quotes · Page 20

I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be!…

— John Newton

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

— Anonymous

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

— Mitch Albom

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

— Robert Breault

There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in…

— Amartya Sen

If anything, all homes should have piped water supply and sanitation, which could improve public-health indicators and reduce infant mortality.

— Rohini Nilekani

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden…

— Gene Tunney

“Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.”

— Rumi

“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and…

— Missouri Williams

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's…

— Harold Bloom

Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22).…

— Robert D. Hales

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of…

— Mitch Albom

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

— Elizabeth Edwards

“I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never…

— Cassandra Kemper

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

— Anatole France

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

— Charles Rafferty

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Djuna Barnes

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which…

— David Gilmour

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

— Anonymous

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but…

— Mitch Hedberg

“Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

— Lauren Kate

“I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.”

— Jennifer Dubois

Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel…

— Jessica Sorensen