Mortality Quotes · Page 25

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

— Ian Botham

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

— David Bentley Hart

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

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had…

— Willard Scott

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

— Bertrand Russell

“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on…

— Joseph Conrad

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

— Italian Proverb

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

— Hans Rosling

O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish…

— Callimachus

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.”

— Anne Rice

“Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?”

— Herman Melville

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening…

— Susanna Clarke

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

— Jacques Rigaut

In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen…

— Lewis Nordan

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

— Jodi Rell

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

— R. D. Laing

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.

— Cassandra Clare

The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again.…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

“The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.”

— Ally Condie

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— E.A. Bucchianeri