Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 287 authors

To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is… — Chris Hedges
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God… — Dorothy Allison
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae
Remember, loving them is the powerful foundation for influencing those you want to help. ... As a companion to that love, trust them. In some… — Richard G. Scott
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even… — Ernest Becker
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books.… — Miranda July
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just… — Susan Sontag
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without… — Lynne Tillman
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me… — Dolph Lundgren
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even… — Sri Chinmoy
Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are… — Brent L. Top
Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that… — M. Russell Ballard
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept… — Sam Kean
Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality. — Russell M. Nelson
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. — Joan D. Vinge
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to… — William Osler
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. — William Wordsworth
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see… — Leonard Nimoy

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