Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 287 authors

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear. — Mother Teresa
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is… — Wendell Berry
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our… — Christopher Moore
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals… — Joseph Conrad
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is… — Harold B. Lee
I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality. — Nikki Sixx
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. — Lord Byron
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds… — Eileen Wilks
We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Weâ€™re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity. — Margaret George
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering — Cassandra Clare
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,… — Margaret Atwood
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even… — Tanith Lee
There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time. — Frank Herbert
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â€œMore people diedâ€ donâ€™t say â€œMortality rose. — C.S. Lewis
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the… — Greg Mortenson
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall… — Neil Gaiman

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