Mortality Quotes · Page 7

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

— Joan D. Vinge

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

— Hideo Kojima

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

— Christopher Plummer

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

“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

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

— Allen Tate

“Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,…

— Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

— Robert Breault

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by…

— Hesiod

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

— Cate Blanchett

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

“We may like to combat disease or even want to cure death. We may try to surf on the waves of infinity…

— Erik Pevernagie

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

— George Pattison

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

— Jon Krakauer

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Conor Oberst

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

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Denise Levertov

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

“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

... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on…

— Thomas Bernhard

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate…

— Margaret Atwood

You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of…

— Wayne Dyer

“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Anne Carson

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

— E.A. Bucchianeri

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

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

— Hans Rosling

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

— David A. Bednar