Mortality Quotes · Page 11

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

— Evelyn Fox Keller

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

— Winston Churchill

“Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that…

— Wole Soyinka

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Rohini Nilekani

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

— John Ford

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going…

— Rosario Dawson

True unconditional love tears through the frail fabric of mortality. Life can come and go as quick as the wind, but love…

— Gregory E Sapp

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a…

— William Faulkner

I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was…

— Donald Fagen

“Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were…

— Daniel Abraham

I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep…

— Matthew Walker

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality…

— Rose George

“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will…

— Paul Kalanithi

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are…

— Tom Stoppard

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close…

— Matthew Zapruder

“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet…

— Richard E. Leakey

“If you have not died in the womb, or fallen prey to infant mortality, or to a young girl's greensickness, or to…

— Elspeth Marr

“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable…

— Peter Watts

My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices…

— Neil L. Andersen

As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of…

— Bruce R. McConkie

I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white…

— John Hodgman

“Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the crappy, fragile, superficial values in life. While most…

— Mark Manson

Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father…

— Ezra Taft Benson

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

— Andrew Lincoln

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over…

— Sarah Manguso

“I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.”

— Julie Kagawa

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands,

— Ronald Dworkin

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

— Dave Eggers

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is…

— Ernest Hemingway

This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own…

— Lisle Von Rhuman

“Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

— Alphonse Allais

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

— Stephen King

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have…

— Anne Sexton

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

— Suzy Nakamura

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and…

— Sue Grafton

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

— Anonymous