Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 287 authors

Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,… — Mark Helprin
Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, — Cassandra Clare
Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist… — Richelle Mead
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love. — Craig Johnston
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. — Kohta Hirano
Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials,… — Lorenzo Snow
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already… — Denis Diderot
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that… — William Butler Yeats
We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For nothing is evil in the beginning. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve… — Alain de Botton
Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on. — Lauren Kate
It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically. — Cassandra Clare
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even… — Paul Auster
It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow… — MacDonald Harris
Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the… — Jessica Sorensen
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. — Rajneesh
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby.… — Cormac McCarthy
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one… — Wendell Berry

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