Best 456 quotes in «mortality quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against 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.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

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

Accepting one's age and mortality is a sign that you've now become an adult. Once you realize you no longer fit in the same jeans you did when you were 30, and the spicy foods you loved when you were younger now like to revisit you at 2 AM, you come to realize that with aging comes adjustment. And, aging isn't a bad thing - it sure beats the alternative!

Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

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.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you in the field where men win fame. But now, as it is, the fates of death await us, thousands poised to strike, and not a man alive can flee them or escape – so in we go for attack! Give our enemy glory or win it for ourselves!

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

All we ask is to be allowed to remain the writers of our own story.

Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.

...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder that you can never, ever go back to any one moment again- that you are always changing, hour by hour, cell by cell, in tiny fragments that build skyscrapers overnight.

An awareness of mortality is a heavy price to pay for sentience