Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 287 authors

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up… — William Shakespeare
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. — John Ford
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other… — Jewel
You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a… — Harold B. Lee
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed… — Emily Dickinson
Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust,… — Matthew Arnold
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. — Frederick Lenz
We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality. — Frederick Lenz
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on. — Frederick Lenz
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham
No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our… — Max More
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must… — John Keats
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the… — Robin Gibb
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. — William Gibson
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality,… — David Cronenberg
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. — Elizabeth Edwards

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