Mortality Quotes · Page 9

“Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.”

— Julianna Baggott

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men…

— Lucretius

“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals…

— Tana French

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

— William Gibson

“Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.”

— Nancy Straight

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

— Craig Johnson

“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

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp,…

— Oswald Chambers

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and…

— Laurence Fox

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact…

— Amartya Sen

“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

“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It…

— Stanisław Lem

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity…

— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

“I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and pulled a…

— Annie Dillard

I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.…

— Wendell Berry

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege…

— Spencer W. Kimball

When you have a baby you start thinking of death cuz' you see the opposite of life. I've calmed down now but…

— Gurinder Chadha

“Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed armour, stiffened…

— Philip Larkin

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

— William Farr

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

— Robert Breault

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

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

“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.”

— Columba Stewart

“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