Best 456 quotes in «mortality quotes» category

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much longer.' 'Let us not think of time.' 'We have reached Faust's non-plus. We say to every moment "Verweile doch, du bist so sch&oumln," and if we are not immediately damned, the stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. But it is open to us to regret each minute as it passes.' 'We shall be exhausted.' 'And is not that a good state to end in?

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

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 the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

There is nothing serious in Mortality

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

A death may be a death, or early warning of existential threat or out-of-context problem. Nothing occurs in isolation. The world’s doom ripples back and forth through time.