Own Mortality Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you -…
— George H. W. Bush
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we…
— Surya Das
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Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise…
— Ita Buttrose
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
— Jodi Rell
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God is a placebo for your own mortality.
— Robert Barron
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My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I…
— William J. Clinton
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The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it’s coming to an end. Once you accept there’s nothing that you can…
— Jeb Corliss
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The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
— Frances Lear
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Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.
— John Elway
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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
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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
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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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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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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
— William Gibson
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I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
— Elizabeth Edwards
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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of…
— Frank Herbert
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It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking…
— Susanna Clarke
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Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own…
— Thomas Lynch
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I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in…
— Rick Riordan
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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
Who Wrote These Own Mortality Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Own Mortality Quotes, led by these top contributors: