Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 287 authors

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. — William Shakespeare
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women… — Neil Gaiman
Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when… — Thomas S. Monson
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently. — Anatole France
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim,… — Tana French
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --… — Emily Dickinson
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn
We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches. — Tana French
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire… — Margaret Atwood
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we… — Joan Didion
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of TinÃºviel.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of… — Heidi Julavits
The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits--through… — Sheri L. Dew
While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of… — Sheri L. Dew
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many… — Mitch Albom
I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in… — Rick Riordan
There is nothing serious in Mortality — William Shakespeare

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