Mortality Quotes
356 quotes by 287 authors
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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
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
— George Herbert
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Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
— John Ford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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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
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For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
— Ian Botham
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
— William Gibson
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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
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I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
— Elizabeth Edwards
Who Wrote These Mortality Quotes
287 authors contributed a total of 356 Mortality Quotes, led by these top contributors: